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title: The ancient Egyptians credited one of their gods Hathor with the inv… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: The ancient Egyptians credited one of their gods Hathor with the invention of music, which Osiris in turn used as part of his effort to civilise the world. Who acts: ancient Egyptians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Egypt» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Egypt, sentence 633

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From Wikipedia, [«Egypt»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The ancient Egyptians credited one of their gods Hathor with the invention of music, which Osiris in turn used as part of his effort to civilise the world.

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**Who acts:** ancient Egyptians · **What happens:** credit, use, civilise, invent · **To what, where:** one, Osiris turn, world, music

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Egypt». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient Egyptians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Egypt:633
# text = The ancient Egyptians credited one of their gods Hathor with the invention of music, which Osiris in turn used as part of his effort to civilise the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	credited	credit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	Hathor	Hathor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Osiris	Osiris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	civilise	civilise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **credit** | past | the ancient Egyptians | one of elements's gods |  |  |  | with the invention of music and Osiris turn  the invention of music and Osiris turn  the invention | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Recipient with invention=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | Osiris turn  the invention of music and Osiris turn  the invention of music and Osiris turn *not said here* |  |  |  | as part of part's effort | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **civilise** | to-infinitive |  | the world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **invent** |  |  | music |  |  |  |  | nom invention «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Egypt», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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