Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 18

Ships carried cats to catch rats that ate food and ropes, sailors thought cats brought luck, and cats spread around the world on ships.

Who acts: Ships, rats, sailors, cats · What happens: carry, catch, eat, think, bring, spread · To what, where: cats, rats, food, luck, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ships, rats, sailors, cats), 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	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 catch	mark
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carried	advcl
6	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rats	acl:relcl
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ropes	cc
11	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 food	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
13	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
15	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	nsubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	ccomp
17	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spread	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 spread	cc
20	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spread	nsubj
21	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
22	around	around	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spread	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 ships	case
26	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spread	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Ships	cats			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	catch	to-infinitive	Ships not said here	rats			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
3	eat	past	rats	food and ropes			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	sailors				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bring	past	cats	luck			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme
6	spread	past	cats		the world	on ships	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around world=Location

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:18.

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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