Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 25

Real life: dogs were the first animals people tamed, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago, while people were still hunters, long before farming.

Who acts: dogs, people · What happens: be, tame, farm · To what, where: first animals, wolves, hunters

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books 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 (dogs, people), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	appos
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 tamed	punct
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tamed	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 animals	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tamed	nsubj
10	tamed	tame	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 animals	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wolves	punct
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 wolves	case
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tamed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ago	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 least	case
16	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 15,000	nmod
17	15,000	15000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ago	obl:unmarked
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 tamed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hunters	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 hunters	mark
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hunters	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hunters	cop
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 hunters	advmod
25	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tamed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 hunters	advmod
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 farming	mark
29	farming	farm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 long	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the first animals				tree rules
2	tame	past	dogs	the first animals not said here	wolves		ago property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
3	is a	past	people	hunters		still	long property	tree rules
4	farm	gerund	people not said here					vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:25.

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, R8-pos-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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