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title: In 1822 Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to read hie… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1822 Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to read hieroglyphs again. Who acts: Jean François. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 18

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In 1822 Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to read hieroglyphs again.

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**Who acts:** Jean François · **What happens:** use, read · **To what, where:** Rosetta Stone, 1822, hieroglyphs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jean François), 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:18
# text = In 1822 Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to read hieroglyphs again.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1822	1822	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	Jean	Jean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	François	François	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Champollion	Champollion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Rosetta	Rosetta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Jean François | the Rosetta Stone |  | 1822 |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | Jean François *not said here* | hieroglyphs |  |  | again |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hieroglyph=Topic |

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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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**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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:18`.

**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/).

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