From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 14

The scientist Robin Dunbar suggested a person can keep about 150 close relationships; hunter-gatherer bands were often 20 to 50 people, and the number 150 is still argued about.

Who acts: scientist, person, gatherer bands · What happens: suggest, keep, be, argue · To what, where: 150 close relationships, 20 people, number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (scientist, person, gatherer bands), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suggested	nsubj
3	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 scientist	appos
4	Dunbar	Dunbar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Robin	flat
5	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 suggested	ccomp
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 150	advmod
11	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 relationships	nummod
12	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 relationships	amod
13	relationships	relationship	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bands	punct
15	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gatherer	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 hunter	punct
17	gatherer	gatherer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bands	compound
18	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 people	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 people	cop
20	often	often	ADV	_	24 people	advmod
21	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 people	nummod
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 20	fixed
23	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 20	nmod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 suggested	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 argued	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 argued	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 number	det
28	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 argued	nsubj:pass
29	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 number	flat
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 argued	aux:pass
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 argued	advmod
32	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 suggested	conj
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 argued	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	past	the scientist				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	can	a person	150 close relationships			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme
3	is a	past	gatherer bands	20 people		often property	tree rules
4	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		the number	still	about property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:14.

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): 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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