The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 17
Nobody knows exactly when language began, but early humans talked, sang and told stories.
Who acts: Nobody, language, early humans · What happens: know, begin, talk, sing, tell · To what, where: stories · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nobody, language, early humans), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 began | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 began | advmod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 talked | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 talked | cc |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 humans | amod |
| 10 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 talked | nsubj |
| 11 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sang | punct |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 talked | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 talked | conj |
| 16 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 told | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | language | exactly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | early humans | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | early humans not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | early humans not said here | stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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:17.
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): no change. 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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