Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 13

Hawaiian honeycreepers all came from one kind of finch and now have many beak shapes, like curved beaks for sipping nectar; many are endangered because mosquitoes spread bird malaria, and many now survive only high in the cold mountains, where mosquitoes do not live well.

Who acts: Hawaiian honeycreepers, curved beaks, mosquitoes, many · What happens: come, have, curve, sip, be, spread · To what, where: one kind, many beak shapes, nectar, many, bird malaria, cold mountains

This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (Hawaiian honeycreepers, curved beaks, mosquitoes, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

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