The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 6
The harpy eagle is one of the most powerful eagles on Earth; it hunts sloths and monkeys with back claws as long as a bear's, flying fast between branches on short broad wings.
Who acts: harpy eagle, eagle · What happens: be, hunt, fly · To what, where: one, sloths, branches
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (harpy eagle, eagle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 2 | harpy | harpy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eagle | compound |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eagles | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagles | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 powerful | advmod |
| 9 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eagles | amod |
| 10 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Earth | case |
| 12 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 eagles | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sloths | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hunts | nsubj |
| 15 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | parataxis |
| 16 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hunts | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 monkeys | cc |
| 18 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sloths | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 claws | case |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 claws | compound |
| 21 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sloths | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 sloths | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 bear | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bear | det |
| 26 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 long | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 bear | case |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 29 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 long | advcl |
| 30 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 flying | advmod |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 32 branches | case |
| 32 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flying | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 wings | case |
| 34 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wings | amod |
| 35 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wings | amod |
| 36 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 branches | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the harpy eagle | one | of the powerful eagles on Earth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hunt | present | eagle | sloths and monkeys | with back claws | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sloth=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | gerund | eagle not said here | branches on short broad wings | fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between branch=Location |
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:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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