Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 17

Most Egyptians were farmers who ate bread, onions and fish and drank thick beer, and children played with balls, dolls and board games like senet.

Who acts: Most Egyptians, farmers, children · What happens: be, eat, drink, play · To what, where: farmers, bread, thick beer

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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 Egyptians, farmers, children), 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 Egyptians	amod
2	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 farmers	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 farmers	cop
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 farmers	acl:relcl
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 onions	punct
9	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bread	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fish	cc
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 onions	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drank	cc
13	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ate	conj
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beer	amod
15	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drank	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 played	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 played	cc
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 played	nsubj
19	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 farmers	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 balls	case
21	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 played	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dolls	punct
23	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 balls	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 games	cc
25	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 games	compound
26	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dolls	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 senet	case
28	senet	senet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dolls	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 farmers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Most Egyptians	farmers		tree rules
2	eat	past	farmers	bread and onions and fish		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
3	drink	past	farmers not said here	thick beer		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient
4	play	past	children		with balls and dolls like senet and board games	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=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:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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