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 31

Real life: a cat was buried beside a person on the island of Cyprus about 9,500 years ago; the ancient Egyptians loved cats and even made statues of a cat-goddess.

Who acts: ancient Egyptians · What happens: bury, love, make · To what, where: cat, island, cats, statues

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 (ancient Egyptians), 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	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buried	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buried	aux:pass
7	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 life	parataxis
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 person	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buried	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 island	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 island	det
13	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buried	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Cyprus	case
15	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 island	nmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 9,500	advmod
17	9,500	9,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ago	obl:unmarked
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 buried	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Egyptians	det
22	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Egyptians	amod
23	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 loved	nsubj
24	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
25	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 loved	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 made	advmod
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 loved	conj
29	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 made	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 goddess	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 goddess	det
32	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 goddess	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 cat	punct
34	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 statues	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		a cat	the island of Cyprus	beside a person; ago property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside person=Destination
2	love	past	the ancient Egyptians	cats			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
3	make	past	the ancient Egyptians not said here	statues of a cat goddess			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset statue=Product

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:31.

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 ×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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