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title: Cleopatra VII was a queen of Egypt from the Ptolemy family, whose fa… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleopatra VII was a queen of Egypt from the Ptolemy family, whose family came from Macedonia in Greece; she was the first of her family known to learn the Egyptian language. Who acts: Cleopatra, family. A sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 9

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Cleopatra VII was a queen of Egypt from the Ptolemy family, whose family came from Macedonia in Greece; she was the first of her family known to learn the Egyptian language.

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**Who acts:** Cleopatra, family · **What happens:** be, come, know, learn · **To what, where:** queen, Ptolemy family, Macedonia, first, family, Egyptian language

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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 (Cleopatra, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:9
# text = Cleopatra VII was a queen of Egypt from the Ptolemy family, whose family came from Macedonia in Greece; she was the first of her family known to learn the Egyptian language.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	VII	VII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Ptolemy	Ptolemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Macedonia	Macedonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | Cleopatra | a queen |  | the Ptolemy family |  | of Egypt | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | family |  |  | Macedonia |  | in Greece | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from macedonia=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | family | the first |  |  |  | of family's family | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | family's family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  | the Egyptian language |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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