City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings, sentence 1

Each city bird uses the city its own way: sparrows hop round the crumbs, starlings swirl over the roofs at dusk, swifts scream over the chimneys in summer, crows gather in winter roosts and peregrines hunt pigeons from the cathedral tower.

Who acts: city bird, sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows, peregrines · What happens: use, hop, swirl, scream, gather, hunt · To what, where: city, crumbs, roofs, chimneys, winter roosts, pigeons

This is a sentence of the lesson «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» 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 (city bird, sparrows, starlings, swifts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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