From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 16
Farming made extra food that could feed soldiers, priests and builders; kings promised protection and collected part of the harvest, and Egypt became one kingdom around 3100 BCE.
Who acts: Farming, extra food, kings, Egypt · What happens: make, feed, promise, collect, become · To what, where: extra food, soldiers, protection, part, one kingdom, 3100
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 (Farming, extra food, kings, Egypt), 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 | Farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 food | amod |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 feed | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 feed | aux |
| 7 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 food | acl:relcl |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 priests | punct |
| 10 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 soldiers | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 builders | cc |
| 12 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 soldiers | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 kings | punct |
| 14 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 16 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 promised | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 collected | cc |
| 18 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 promised | conj |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collected | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 harvest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 harvest | det |
| 22 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 became | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 became | cc |
| 25 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 became | nsubj |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 kingdom | nummod |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 became | xcomp |
| 29 | around | around | ADP | _ | 30 3100 | case |
| 30 | 3100 | 3100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 became | obl |
| 31 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 3100 | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Farming | extra food | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | ||||
| 2 | feed | could | extra food | soldiers and priests and builders | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | kings | protection | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent protection=Theme | ||||
| 4 | collect | past | kings not said here | part of the harvest | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | past | Egypt | one kingdom | 3100 BCE | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:16.
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 ×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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