How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 4
For almost all of human time everyone hunted animals and gathered plants, nuts and berries.
Who acts: everyone · What happens: hunt, gather · To what, where: animals, plants
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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 (everyone), 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 | _ | 3 all | case |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hunted | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 all | nmod |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 hunted | nsubj |
| 8 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hunted | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plants | cc |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunted | conj |
| 12 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gathered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nuts | punct |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 plants | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 berries | cc |
| 16 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 plants | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | everyone | animals | for all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent animal=Location for all=Theme | |||
| 2 | gather | past | everyone not said here | plants and nuts and berries | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:4.
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. 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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