Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 16

Elephant seals can dive over 1,500 metres deep and stay under for more than an hour, storing oxygen in their blood and muscles and slowing their heart.

Who acts: Elephant seals · What happens: dive, stay, store, slow · To what, where: oxygen, blood, heart

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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 (Elephant seals), 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	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seals	compound
2	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dive	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dive	aux
4	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 metres	case
6	1,500	1,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deep	obl
8	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 dive	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stay	cc
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dive	conj
11	under	under	ADV	_	10 stay	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 hour	case
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 hour	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 more	fixed
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 storing	punct
18	storing	store	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stay	advcl
19	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 storing	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 blood	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 blood	nmod:poss
22	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 storing	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 muscles	cc
24	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 blood	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slowing	cc
26	slowing	slow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 storing	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heart	nmod:poss
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slowing	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	can	Elephant seals				deep property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	stay	infinitive	Elephant seals not said here			hour	under property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	store	gerund	Elephant seals not said here	oxygen	metres's blood and muscles			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme in blood=Location
4	slow	gerund	Elephant seals not said here	muscles's heart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=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:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.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): 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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