Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 21
Hachiko, a dog in Japan, went to Shibuya station every day for nearly 10 years after his owner died, waiting for him.
Who acts: Hachiko, owner · What happens: go, die, wait · To what, where: Shibuya station
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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 (Hachiko, owner), 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 | Hachiko | Hachiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dog | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hachiko | appos |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Japan | case |
| 6 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hachiko | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 station | case |
| 10 | Shibuya | Shibuya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 station | compound |
| 11 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 15 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 16 10 | advmod |
| 16 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 died | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 owner | nmod:poss |
| 20 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 died | nsubj |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 died | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 waiting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hachiko | Shibuya station | day; year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to station=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | die | past | Hachiko's owner | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Hachiko's owner not said here | for owner | vn exist-47.1 «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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:21.
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): no change. 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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