Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals, sentence 15

Chickens come from the red junglefowl, a wild bird of Asian jungles; they may first have been kept for show and fighting, later for eggs and meat, and there are now more chickens than any other bird on Earth.

Who acts: Chickens, more chickens · What happens: come, keep, be · To what, where: red junglefowl, chickens

This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» of the biology 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 (Chickens, more chickens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 junglefowl	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 junglefowl	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 junglefowl	amod
6	junglefowl	junglefowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bird	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 junglefowl	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 jungles	case
12	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jungles	amod
13	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bird	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	nsubj:pass
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	aux
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 kept	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 kept	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 kept	aux:pass
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 come	parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 show	case
22	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fighting	cc
24	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 show	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 later	punct
26	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 kept	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 eggs	case
28	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 later	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 meat	cc
30	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eggs	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 are	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 are	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 are	expl
34	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	advcl
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 are	advmod
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 chickens	amod
37	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 are	nsubj
38	than	than	ADP	_	41 bird	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 bird	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bird	amod
41	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 chickens	nmod
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 Earth	case
43	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 bird	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Chickens		the red junglefowl			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from junglefowl=Initial_Location
2	keep	may · perfect · passive		chickens = chicken			for show and fighting; first, late property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	does	present	more chickens than any other bird on Earth		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:15.

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 ×2. 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.

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