Egypt, sentence 51
From Wikipedia, «Egypt», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In the 10th millennium BCE, a culture of hunter-gatherers and fishers was replaced by a grain-grinding culture.
Who acts: grinding culture · What happens: replace, grind · To what, where: culture, 10th millennium
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Egypt». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grinding culture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 millennium | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 millennium | det |
| 3 | 10th | 10th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 millennium | amod |
| 4 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replaced | obl |
| 5 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 millennium | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 millennium | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 culture | det |
| 8 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gatherers | case |
| 10 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gatherers | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunter | punct |
| 12 | gatherers | gatherer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 culture | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fishers | cc |
| 14 | fishers | fisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gatherers | conj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 replaced | aux:pass |
| 16 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 culture | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 culture | det |
| 19 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grinding | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grain | punct |
| 21 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 culture | amod |
| 22 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replaced | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | past · passive | a grinding culture | a culture of hunter gatherers and fishers | the 10th millennium | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | grind | gerund | grain compound | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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