Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 7

People arrived in New Zealand around 1300 and hunted the moas, which had never met a hunter on land before; the moas died out within about 200 years, and the Haast's eagle, having lost the big birds it hunted, died out with them.

Who acts: People, moas, eagle · What happens: arrive, hunt, not meet, die out, lose · To what, where: New Zealand, moas, hunter, land, big birds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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 (People, moas, eagle), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 1300	case
7	1300	1300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 arrived	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hunted	cc
9	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moas	det
11	moas	moa	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hunted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 met	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 met	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 met	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 met	advmod
16	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 moas	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hunter	det
18	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 land	case
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	obl
21	before	before	ADV	_	16 met	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 died	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moas	det
24	moas	moa	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 died	compound:prt
27	within	within	ADP	_	30 years	case
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 200	advmod
29	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 died	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 died	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 died	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Haast	det
34	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 eagle	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Haast	case
36	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 died	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lost	punct
38	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 lost	aux
39	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 eagle	acl:relcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 birds	det
41	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 birds	amod
42	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lost	obj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 hunted	nsubj
44	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 birds	acl:relcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 eagle	punct
46	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 died	compound:prt
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 died	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	People		New Zealand		around 1300	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around 1300=Initial_Location
2	hunt	past	People not said here	the moas				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moa=Theme
3	not meet	past · perfect	the moas	a hunter	land		before property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Co-Agent
4	die out	past	the moas			year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	lose	gerund · perfect	the Haast's eagle not said here	the big birds				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
6	hunt	past	eagle	the big birds not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
7	die out	past	the Haast's eagle				with moas = moa	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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