Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 4
Bringing missing animals back and letting nature run itself again is called rewilding, and in Britain it has brought back beavers, white storks and nightingales.
Who acts: nature, wolf · What happens: bring back, let, run, call, rewild · To what, where: missing animals, nature, beavers, Britain · 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 (nature, wolf), 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 | Bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 called | advcl |
| 2 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bringing | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Bringing | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 letting | cc |
| 6 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Bringing | conj |
| 7 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 letting | obj |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 letting | xcomp |
| 9 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 run | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | rewilding | rewild | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brought | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Britain | case |
| 17 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 brought | aux |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 called | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 brought | advmod |
| 22 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brought | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 storks | punct |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 storks | amod |
| 25 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beavers | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 nightingales | cc |
| 27 | nightingales | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beavers | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | gerund | missing animals | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination | |||||
| 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 | call | present · passive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | rewild | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | bring back | present · perfect | wolf | beavers and white storks and nightingales | Britain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument beaver=Destination |
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:4.
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): R7-rel-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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