Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 10
Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them.
Who acts: Real sailors, catching · What happens: bring, catch, restrict, protect · To what, where: parrots, tropical voyages, wild parrots
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» 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 sailors, catching), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sailors | amod |
| 2 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 voyages | case |
| 8 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voyages | amod |
| 9 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 restricted | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 restricted | cc |
| 12 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 restricted | csubj:pass |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 parrots | amod |
| 14 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 catching | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 pets | case |
| 16 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 catching | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 restricted | aux:pass |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | _ | 19 restricted | advmod |
| 19 | restricted | restrict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bring | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 protect | mark |
| 21 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 restricted | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 protect | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | 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 | bring | past · do-support | Real sailors | parrots | tropical voyages | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme from voyage=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | catch | gerund | wild parrots | for pets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme for pet=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | restrict | present · passive | catching | now | vn limit-76 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | catching not said here | Parrots = parrot | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives.lesson:10.
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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