Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs, sentence 7

A border collie herds sheep by running around them and bringing them to the shepherd, who guides the dog with whistles that carry far across a hillside.

Who acts: shepherd, whistles · What happens: herd, run, bring, guide, carry · To what, where: sheep, dogs, shepherd, dog, hillside

This is a sentence of the lesson «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» 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 (shepherd, whistles), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 herds	det
2	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 collie	compound
3	collie	collie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 herds	compound
4	herds	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 herds	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 running	mark
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 herds	advcl
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 running	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bringing	cc
11	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 running	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bringing	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 shepherd	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shepherd	det
15	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bringing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guides	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 guides	nsubj
18	guides	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shepherd	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guides	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 whistles	case
22	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 guides	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 carry	nsubj
24	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 whistles	acl:relcl
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 carry	advmod
26	across	across	ADP	_	28 hillside	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hillside	det
28	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carry	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 herds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	herd	present		sheep				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
2	run	gerund					around dogs = dog	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory
3	bring	gerund		dogs = dog	the shepherd			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to shepherd=Destination
4	guide	present	the shepherd	the dog			with whistles	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
5	carry	present	whistles			a hillside	far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs.lesson:7.

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. 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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