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title: After the Battle of Kadesh, Egypt and the Hittites signed one of the… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Battle of Kadesh, Egypt and the Hittites signed one of the oldest known peace treaties, around 1259 BCE; a copy hangs at the United Nations. Who acts: Egypt, copy. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school
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# Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 17

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After the Battle of Kadesh, Egypt and the Hittites signed one of the oldest known peace treaties, around 1259 BCE; a copy hangs at the United Nations.

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**Who acts:** Egypt, copy · **What happens:** sign, know, hang · **To what, where:** one, 1259, United Nations

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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 (Egypt, copy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:17
# text = After the Battle of Kadesh, Egypt and the Hittites signed one of the oldest known peace treaties, around 1259 BCE; a copy hangs at the United Nations.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Battle	battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kadesh	Kadesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hittites	Hittite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1259	1259	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
22	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
30	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **sign** | past | Egypt and the Hittites | one of the oldest known peace treaties |  | 1259  BCE | after the Battle of Kadesh |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme around 1259=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hang** | present | a copy |  |  | the United Nations |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at nation=Location |

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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:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:17`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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