--- title: Farming made extra food that could feed soldiers, priests and builde… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (Farming, extra food, kings, Egypt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:16 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Farming farming NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 builders builder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 collected collect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ _ 29 around around ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 3100 3100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obl _ _ 31 BCE BCE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:unmarked _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](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: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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