Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 3
In ancient Egypt cats kept mice and snakes away from food and homes and became sacred: the goddess Bastet had a cat's head, and millions of cats were mummified as gifts to the gods.
Who acts: cats, goddess · What happens: keep, become, have, mummify · To what, where: mice, ancient Egypt, head, millions
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 (cats, goddess), 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 Egypt | case |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Egypt | amod |
| 3 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 snakes | cc |
| 8 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mice | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 away | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 homes | cc |
| 13 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 food | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 16 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goddess | det |
| 19 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | Bastet | Bastet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 goddess | appos |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cat | det |
| 23 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 cat | case |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 mummified | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 mummified | cc |
| 28 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 mummified | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cats | case |
| 30 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 millions | nmod |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 mummified | aux:pass |
| 32 | mummified | mummify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 had | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 gifts | case |
| 34 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 mummified | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 gods | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 gods | det |
| 37 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 gifts | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | cats | mice and snakes | ancient Egypt | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in egypt=Location | ||
| 2 | become | past | cats not said here | sacred property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the goddess | a cat's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mummify | past · passive | millions of cats | as gifts to the gods | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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