The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 0

For almost all of the time humans have existed, nobody farmed, built towns or wrote anything down: people lived by hunting animals and gathering plants.

Who acts: humans, nobody, people · What happens: exist, farm, build, write down, live, hunt · To what, where: time, towns, anything, animals, plants

This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 (humans, nobody, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 all	case
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	3 all	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 farmed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 all	nmod
7	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 existed	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 existed	aux
9	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 time	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 existed	punct
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 farmed	nsubj
12	farmed	farm	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 built	punct
14	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 farmed	conj
15	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 built	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 wrote	cc
17	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 farmed	conj
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 wrote	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 wrote	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 farmed	punct
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lived	nsubj
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wrote	parataxis
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 hunting	mark
24	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 lived	advcl
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hunting	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gathering	cc
27	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 hunting	conj
28	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gathering	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 farmed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exist	present · perfect	humans	the time not said here		tree rules
2	farm	past	nobody		for all	vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	build	past	nobody not said here	towns		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset town=Product
4	write down	past	nobody not said here	anything		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
5	live	past	people			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hunt	gerund	people not said here	animals		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
7	gather	gerund	people not said here	plants		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:0.

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. 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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