Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 13

The Okavango river floods a desert in the middle of the dry season, because rain from far away takes months to flow down to the delta, and the flood feeds elephants, lions and birds.

Who acts: Okavango river, rain, flood · What happens: flood, take, flow down, feed · To what, where: desert, middle, elephants

This is a sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 (Okavango river, rain, flood), 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 river	det
2	Okavango	Okavango	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 river	compound
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floods	nsubj
4	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 desert	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floods	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floods	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 season	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 season	det
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 season	amod
13	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rain	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 takes	mark
16	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 takes	nsubj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 far	case
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 takes	obl
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
20	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 floods	advcl
21	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 takes	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 flow	mark
23	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 takes	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 flow	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 delta	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 delta	det
27	delta	delta	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flow	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feeds	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feeds	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flood	det
31	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feeds	nsubj
32	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 floods	conj
33	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 feeds	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lions	punct
35	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 elephants	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 birds	cc
37	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 elephants	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 floods	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	present	the Okavango river	a desert		the middle of the dry season			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent desert=Patient
2	take	present	rain				month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from far=Initial_Location
3	flow down	to-infinitive	rain not said here					to the delta; down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feed	present	the flood		elephants and lions and birds				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient

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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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