The aim of this paper is to study the use of non-projective structures in Unas’s and Teti’s Pyramid Texts (ca. 2321–2279 BC) annotated in the Egyptian-UJaen treebank. It offers the first typology of non-projective patterns in Old Egyptian, and it discusses the causes for non-projectivity in the Old Egyptian language of Unas’s and Teti’s Pyramid Texts to conclude that non-projectivity is an exceptional phenomenon in these texts.

Relative forms are a distinctive morphosyntactic feature of Earlier Egyptian. They pose a challenge when annotating them according to the Universal Dependencies approach. They are adjective finite verb forms, and therefore they have both verb and adjective properties, but they can also be used as nouns. The aim of this paper is to discuss the morphosyntactic methodology applied to their annotation in the Egyptian-UJaen treebank.