Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 6

Most people were peasants who worked from sunrise to sunset, lived in small one-room houses and often kept their animals inside in winter for warmth and safety.

Who acts: Most people, peasants · What happens: be, work, live, keep · To what, where: peasants, small room houses, animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» 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 (Most people, peasants), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 peasants	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 peasants	cop
4	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 worked	nsubj
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 peasants	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 sunrise	case
8	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worked	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 sunset	case
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worked	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 houses	case
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 houses	amod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 room	nummod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 houses	compound
18	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 kept	cc
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 kept	advmod
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worked	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 animals	nmod:poss
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kept	obj
24	inside	inside	ADV	_	21 kept	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 winter	case
26	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kept	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 warmth	case
28	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kept	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 safety	cc
30	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 warmth	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 peasants	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Most people	peasants				tree rules
2	work	past	peasants			sunrise; sunset		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	past	peasants not said here		small room houses			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4	keep	past	peasants not said here	peasants's animals		winter	for warmth and safety; inside, often property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:6.

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.

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