The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 4

In a walkabout visitors walk among kangaroos and wallabies on paths with no fence, and the kangaroos rest in the heat of the day and graze at dawn and dusk.

Who acts: visitors, kangaroos, day · What happens: walk, rest, graze, heat · To what, where: walkabout, heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology 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 (visitors, kangaroos, day), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 walkabout	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 walkabout	det
3	walkabout	walkabout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 kangaroos	case
7	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wallabies	cc
9	wallabies	wallaby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kangaroos	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 paths	case
11	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wallabies	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 fence	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 fence	det
14	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 paths	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rest	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rest	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kangaroos	det
18	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rest	nsubj
19	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 heat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 heat	det
22	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rest	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heat	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 graze	cc
27	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rest	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 dawn	case
29	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 graze	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dusk	cc
31	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dawn	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	visitors	a walkabout		among kangaroos and wallabies on paths with no fence	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in walkabout=Trajectory
2	rest	present	the kangaroos	the heat of the day			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in heat=Location
3	graze	present	the kangaroos not said here		dawn		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	heat		the day				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes.lesson:4.

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 ×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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