Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us, sentence 29

Real life: cats came to live near people about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, when farmers stored grain; the grain drew mice, and the mice drew wildcats.

Who acts: cats, farmers, grain, mice · What happens: come, live, store, draw · To what, where: grain, mice, wildcats

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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 (cats, farmers, grain, mice), 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	5 came	dislocated
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	near	near	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 10,000	advmod
11	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 years	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 East	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 East	det
16	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 East	amod
17	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stored	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 stored	advmod
20	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stored	nsubj
21	stored	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
22	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stored	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 drew	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grain	det
25	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drew	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 drew	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drew	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mice	det
31	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 drew	nsubj
32	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drew	conj
33	wildcats	wildcat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 drew	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	cats		year	Real life dislocated	tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	cats not said here			near people in the Middle East	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near people=Location
3	store	past	farmers	grain			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
4	draw	past	the grain	mice			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
5	draw	past	the mice	wildcats			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildcat=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:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:29.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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