Whales, sentence 16

Whaling, the hunting of whales for oil and meat, nearly wiped out some species; most whaling was banned in 1986, and humpbacks have recovered a lot.

Who acts: Whaling, humpbacks · What happens: wipe out, ban, recover, hunt · To what, where: species, most whaling, 1986, lot, whales

This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales» 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 (Whaling, humpbacks), 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	Whaling	whaling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wiped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Whaling	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunting	det
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Whaling	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 whales	case
6	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunting	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 oil	case
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whales	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 meat	cc
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Whaling	punct
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 wiped	advmod
13	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 banned	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 wiped	compound:prt
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 species	det
16	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wiped	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 banned	punct
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 whaling	amod
19	whaling	whaling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 banned	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 banned	aux:pass
21	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 1986	case
23	1986	1986	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 banned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 recovered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 recovered	cc
26	humpbacks	humpback	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 recovered	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 recovered	aux
28	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 banned	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lot	det
30	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 recovered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past	Whaling	some species		nearly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent species=Source
2	ban	past · passive		most whaling	1986		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	recover	present · perfect	humpbacks	a lot			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hunt			whales for oil and meat			nom hunting «act transitive»: of=patient

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:026-whales.lesson:16.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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