Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 17

In medieval Europe some people linked black cats with witches, but in Britain and Japan black cats can mean good luck; it is only superstition.

Who acts: people, black cats, cat · What happens: link, mean, be · To what, where: black cats, medieval Europe, good luck, superstition

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 (people, black cats, cat), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Europe	case
2	medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Europe	amod
3	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 linked	obl
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 linked	nsubj
6	linked	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cats	amod
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 linked	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 witches	case
10	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 linked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mean	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 mean	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Britain	case
14	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 mean	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Japan	cc
16	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Britain	conj
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cats	amod
18	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mean	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 mean	aux
20	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 linked	conj
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 luck	amod
22	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mean	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 superstition	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 superstition	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 superstition	cop
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 superstition	advmod
27	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 linked	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 linked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	link	past	some people	black cats	medieval Europe	with witches	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cat=Patient with witch=Co-Patient
2	mean	can	black cats	good luck		in Britain and Japan	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot luck=Theme in britain=Attribute
3	is a	present	cat	superstition			tree rules

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:17.

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): no change. 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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