The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 9

For most of human history people were hunter-gatherers who hunted, fished and gathered berries, nuts and roots, moving camp with the seasons.

Who acts: people, hunter gatherers · What happens: be, hunt, fish, gather, move · To what, where: hunter gatherers, berries, camp

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, hunter gatherers), 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	_	2 most	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 gatherers	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 history	case
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 history	amod
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 most	nmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gatherers	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gatherers	cop
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gatherers	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hunter	punct
10	gatherers	gatherer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hunted	nsubj
12	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gatherers	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fished	punct
14	fished	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hunted	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gathered	cc
16	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hunted	conj
17	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gathered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nuts	punct
19	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 berries	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 roots	cc
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 berries	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 moving	punct
23	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hunted	conj
24	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moving	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 seasons	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seasons	det
27	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 moving	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gatherers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	people	hunter gatherers		for most of human history	tree rules
2	hunt	past	hunter gatherers				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fish	past	hunter gatherers not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	gather	past	hunter gatherers not said here	berries and nuts and roots			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
5	move	gerund	hunter gatherers not said here	camp	season		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent camp=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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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