--- title: Tutankhamun became pharaoh as a boy of about nine and died at about… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics description: Tutankhamun became pharaoh as a boy of about nine and died at about nineteen; he was not very important in his own time but is famous because his tomb was found almost untouched in 1922. Who acts: Tutankhamun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tutankhamun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:12 # text = Tutankhamun became pharaoh as a boy of about nine and died at about nineteen; he was not very important in his own time but is famous because his tomb was found almost untouched in 1922. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 Tutankhamun Tutankhamun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 pharaoh pharaoh NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 tomb tomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 33 almost almost ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 untouched untouched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 1922 1922 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Tutankhamun | pharaoh | | | | as a boy of nine | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **die** | past | Tutankhamun *not said here* | | | nineteen | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | Tutankhamun | | | | time | important *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Tutankhamun *not said here* | | | | | famous *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | past · passive | | pharaoh's tomb | | 1922 | | untouched *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:12`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/11/) - next →: [Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/)