--- title: In ancient Egypt cats kept mice and snakes away from food and homes… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: In ancient Egypt cats kept mice and snakes away from food and homes and became sacred: the goddess Bastet had a cat's head, and millions of cats were mummified as gifts to the gods. Who acts: cats, goddess. 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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 (cats, goddess), 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:3 # text = In ancient Egypt cats kept mice and snakes away from food and homes and became sacred: the goddess Bastet had a cat's head, and millions of cats were mummified as gifts to the gods. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 Bastet Bastet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 mummified mummify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 33 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | cats | mice and snakes | | ancient Egypt | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in egypt=Location | | 2 | **become** | past | cats *not said here* | | | | | sacred *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **have** | past | the goddess | a cat's head | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 4 | **mummify** | past · passive | | millions of cats | | | | as gifts to the gods | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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](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:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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