--- title: About 5,100 years ago a king remembered as Narmer or Menes joined Up… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics description: About 5,100 years ago a king remembered as Narmer or Menes joined Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north into one kingdom. Who acts: king. 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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), 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:9 # text = About 5,100 years ago a king remembered as Narmer or Menes joined Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north into one kingdom. # 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 _ 12 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 7 remembered remember VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Narmer Narmer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Menes Menes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 Upper Upper PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 Lower Lower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | participle | | a king *not said here* | | | | as Narmer or Menes | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as narmer=Attribute | | 2 | **join** | past | a king | Upper Egypt | | the south and Lower Egypt | | in the north; into one kingdom; ago *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent egypt=Patient into kingdom=Co-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. **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. 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