From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 7

Human groups grew the same way: small hunting bands of 20 to 50, then tribes and chiefdoms, then kingdoms once farming made extra food, then empires and countries.

Who acts: Human groups · What happens: grow, farm, make · To what, where: same way, extra food

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 (Human groups), 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	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 groups	amod
2	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 bands	punct
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bands	amod
9	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bands	compound
10	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 way	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 20	case
12	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 bands	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 50	case
14	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 20	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tribes	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 tribes	advmod
17	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bands	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chiefdoms	cc
19	chiefdoms	chiefdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tribes	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kingdoms	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 kingdoms	advmod
22	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bands	conj
23	once	once	SCONJ	_	25 made	mark
24	farming	farm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	advcl
26	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 food	amod
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 empires	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 empires	advmod
30	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 made	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 countries	cc
32	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 empires	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Human groups	the same way		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	farm	gerund				vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	past		extra food	empires and countries obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

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:7.

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. 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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