--- title: Ancient Egyptians loved cats, which kept mice and snakes away; the g… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Ancient Egyptians loved cats, which kept mice and snakes away; the goddess Bastet had a cat's head, and killing a cat could bring a death sentence. Who acts: Ancient Egyptians, cats, goddess, killing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ancient Egyptians, cats, goddess, killing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:11 # text = Ancient Egyptians loved cats, which kept mice and snakes away; the goddess Bastet had a cat's head, and killing a cat could bring a death sentence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Egyptians egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 Bastet Bastet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 killing kill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | Ancient Egyptians | cats | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 2 | **keep** | past | cats | mice and snakes | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | the goddess | a cat's head | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 4 | **kill** | gerund | | a cat | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | could | killing | a death sentence | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sentence=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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