The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 13

There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.

Who acts: real elephant graveyard, elephants, bones, weak old elephants · What happens: be, die, collect, stay · To what, where: water

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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 (real elephant graveyard, elephants, bones, weak old elephants), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 graveyard	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 graveyard	amod
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 graveyard	compound
6	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 die	nsubj
9	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
10	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	12 are	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 are	nsubj
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 die	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 collect	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 collect	mark
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 collect	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 collect	aux
17	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 die	advcl
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 water	case
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 collect	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 stayed	advmod
21	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 elephants	amod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 elephants	amod
23	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stayed	nsubj
24	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 water	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no real elephant graveyard	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	present	elephants			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	does	present	elephants = elephant		wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	collect	may	bones	water		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	stay	past	weak old elephants			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:13.

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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