The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 7
The first humans like us, Homo sapiens, lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and every person alive today has ancestors from Africa.
Who acts: first humans, person · What happens: live, have · To what, where: Africa, ancestors
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 (first humans, person), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 humans | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 humans | amod |
| 3 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 humans | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sapiens | punct |
| 7 | Homo | homo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sapiens | compound |
| 8 | sapiens | sapien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 300,000 | advmod |
| 14 | 300,000 | 300000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 has | cc |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | nsubj |
| 21 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 22 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 person | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | conj |
| 24 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 has | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Africa | case |
| 26 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ancestors | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the first humans like us | Africa | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | |||
| 2 | have | present | every person today | ancestors | Africa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancestor=Patient |
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:7.
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 ×3, 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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