--- title: About 5,100 years ago the southern and northern lands were joined in… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics description: About 5,100 years ago the southern and northern lands were joined into one kingdom, ruled by a king called the pharaoh, whom Egyptians believed was partly a god. Who acts: king, Egyptians. 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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 (king, Egyptians), 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:4 # text = About 5,100 years ago the southern and northern lands were joined into one kingdom, ruled by a king called the pharaoh, whom Egyptians believed was partly a god. # 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): no change 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 5,100 5,100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:agent _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pharaoh pharaoh NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 25 Egyptians Egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 partly partly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | past · passive | | the southern lands | | | | into one kingdom; ago *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient into kingdom=Co-Patient | | 2 | **rule** | participle | | one kingdom *not said here* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | a king *not said here* | the pharaoh | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Recipient | | 4 | **believe** | past | Egyptians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | past | | a god | | | | partly *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/3/) - next →: [Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/)