Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 16
Around Newfoundland so many cod were caught that the fishing was closed in 1992, thousands of people lost their jobs, and decades later the cod have still not fully come back.
Who acts: thousands, cod · What happens: catch, close, lose, not come back, job · To what, where: many cod, Newfoundland, fishing, jobs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 (thousands, cod), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 2 Newfoundland | case |
| 2 | Newfoundland | Newfoundland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cod | amod |
| 5 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux:pass |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 closed | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fishing | det |
| 10 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 closed | aux:pass |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caught | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1992 | case |
| 14 | 1992 | 1992 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 closed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 closed | parataxis |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lost | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 come | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 come | cc |
| 24 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 later | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 come | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cod | det |
| 27 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 come | aux |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 come | advmod |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 come | advmod |
| 31 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 32 come | advmod |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 caught | conj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 come | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | many cod | Newfoundland | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | past · passive | the fishing | in 1992 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in 1992=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | thousands of people | thousands's jobs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not come back | present · perfect | the cod | still | fully, late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | job | thousands = thousand | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:16.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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