--- title: The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, has the same message in hieroglyph… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics description: The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, has the same message in hieroglyphs, another Egyptian script and Greek; scholars could already read the Greek, so they could compare it with the hieroglyphs. Who acts: Rosetta Stone, scholars. 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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 (Rosetta Stone, scholars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:17 # text = The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, has the same message in hieroglyphs, another Egyptian script and Greek; scholars could already read the Greek, so they could compare it with the hieroglyphs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Rosetta Rosetta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1799 1799 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hieroglyphs hieroglyph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 17 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 script script NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Greek Greek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 already already ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Greek Greek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 compare compare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hieroglyphs hieroglyph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | participle | | the Rosetta Stone *not said here* | | 1799 | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | the Rosetta Stone | the same message | | hieroglyphs | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient | | 3 | **read** | could | scholars | the Greek | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greek=Topic | | 4 | **compare** | could | scholars *= scholar* | message | | | | with the hieroglyphs | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hieroglyph=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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