Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 4
Think of Moby Dick, the white whale in the old story: he was a sperm whale, and real sperm whale skin often shows round scars from the suckers of squid they fought in the dark.
Who acts: you, Moby, real whale skin, whales · What happens: think, be, show, fight · To what, where: sperm whale, round scars, suckers, squid, dark
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» 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 (you, Moby, real whale skin, whales), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Moby | case |
| 3 | Moby | Moby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 4 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Moby | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whale | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whale | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 whale | amod |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Moby | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whale | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 whale | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 whale | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 whale | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 whale | det |
| 17 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whale | compound |
| 18 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shows | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shows | cc |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 skin | amod |
| 22 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whale | compound |
| 23 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | compound |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shows | nsubj |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 26 shows | advmod |
| 26 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 whale | conj |
| 27 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 scars | amod |
| 28 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shows | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 suckers | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 suckers | det |
| 31 | suckers | sucker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 scars | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 squid | case |
| 33 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 suckers | nmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fought | nsubj |
| 35 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 squid | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 dark | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dark | det |
| 38 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fought | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of Moby | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Moby | a sperm whale | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present | real whale skin | round scars | the suckers of squid | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scar=Recipient | ||
| 4 | fight | past | whales = whale | squid not said here | the dark | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Co-Agent |
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:313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.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): R5-strong ×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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