Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 13
Dimetrodon, with its sail, lived about 280 million years ago, before any dinosaurs, and is closer to mammals, and so to us, than to dinosaurs.
Who acts: Dimetrodon · What happens: live, be · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 (Dimetrodon), 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 | Dimetrodon | dimetrodon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sail | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dimetrodon | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dimetrodon | punct |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 million | advmod |
| 9 | 280 | 280 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dinosaurs | punct |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 dinosaurs | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 dinosaurs | det |
| 16 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 closer | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 closer | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 closer | cop |
| 20 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 lived | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 mammals | case |
| 22 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 closer | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 us | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 us | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 us | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 closer | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dinosaurs | punct |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 dinosaurs | case |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 dinosaurs | case |
| 31 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 closer | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Dimetrodon with university's sail | before any dinosaurs | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before dinosaur=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | Dimetrodon with university's sail not said here | us | to mammals; than dinosaurs; close property | tree rules |
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.
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