Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 13
Rewilding means letting nature run itself again, often by returning missing animals; at Knepp in England a farm was left to go wild, and storks, turtle doves and nightingales came back.
Who acts: Rewilding, nature, farm, storks · What happens: mean, let, run, return, leave, go · To what, where: nature, missing animals, farm, Knepp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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 (Rewilding, nature, farm, storks), 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 | Rewilding | rewilding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | ccomp |
| 4 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 letting | obj |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 letting | xcomp |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 run | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returning | punct |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 returning | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 returning | mark |
| 11 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 letting | advcl |
| 12 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 animals | amod |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 returning | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Knepp | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Knepp | case |
| 16 | Knepp | Knepp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 England | case |
| 18 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Knepp | nmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 farm | det |
| 20 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 left | xcomp |
| 25 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 go | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 28 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 came | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 doves | punct |
| 30 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 doves | compound |
| 31 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 storks | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 nightingales | cc |
| 33 | nightingales | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 storks | conj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | conj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Rewilding | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | gerund | nature | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | nature not said here | nature | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | return | gerund | missing animals | often property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | a farm | Knepp in England | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | a farm not said here | wild property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come back | past | storks and turtle doves and nightingales | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:13.
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 ×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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