Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 11

Ancient Egyptians loved cats, which kept mice and snakes away; the goddess Bastet had a cat's head, and killing a cat could bring a death sentence.

Who acts: Ancient Egyptians, cats, goddess, killing · What happens: love, keep, have, kill, bring · To what, where: cats, mice, head, cat, death sentence

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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 (Ancient Egyptians, cats, goddess, killing), 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	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Egyptians	amod
2	Egyptians	egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cats	acl:relcl
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 snakes	cc
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mice	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	7 kept	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goddess	det
14	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
15	Bastet	Bastet	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 goddess	appos
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 head	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 cat	case
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bring	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
23	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 bring	csubj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cat	det
25	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 killing	obj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bring	aux
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sentence	det
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sentence	compound
30	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	Ancient Egyptians	cats		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
2	keep	past	cats	mice and snakes	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	have	past	the goddess	a cat's head		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	kill	gerund		a cat		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
5	bring	could	killing	a death sentence		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sentence=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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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