The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 8
From Africa people spread step by step over the whole world over many tens of thousands of years; they did not appear everywhere at once.
Who acts: people · What happens: spread, not appear · To what, where: Africa, whole world
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 (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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 2 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 step | case |
| 7 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 world | amod |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 tens | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tens | amod |
| 14 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 world | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thousands | case |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tens | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 appear | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 appear | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 appear | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 appear | advmod |
| 23 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spread | parataxis |
| 24 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 appear | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 once | case |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 everywhere | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | 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 | spread | past | people | Africa | the whole world over many tens of thousands of years | by step | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme by step=Destination | ||
| 2 | not appear | past · do-support | people | everywhere property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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