Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 19

For centuries most people learned jobs as apprentices, living and working with a master for years, while guilds of bakers, weavers and builders set the rules.

Who acts: most people, guilds · What happens: learn, live, work, set · To what, where: jobs, rules

This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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, guilds), 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 centuries	case
2	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	obl
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	nsubj
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 apprentices	case
8	apprentices	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 living	punct
10	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 learned	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 working	cc
12	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 living	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 master	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 master	det
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 working	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 working	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 set	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 set	mark
20	guilds	guild	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 set	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 bakers	case
22	bakers	baker	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 guilds	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weavers	punct
24	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bakers	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 builders	cc
26	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 guilds	conj
27	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rules	det
29	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 set	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	most people	jobs	century	as apprentices	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic
2	live	gerund	most people not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	work	gerund	most people not said here		year	with a master	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with master=Co-Agent
4	set	past	guilds of bakers and weavers and builders	the rules			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rule=Result

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:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:19.

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, R8-pos-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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