Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 19

The fire salamander lives in damp Carpathian forests; the old belief that it lives in fire probably came from salamanders crawling out of logs thrown on a fire, and its bright colours warn of poisonous skin.

Who acts: fire salamander, belief, old belief, salamanders, bright colours · What happens: live, come, crawl, throw, warn · To what, where: damp Carpathian forests, old belief, fire, salamanders, logs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (fire salamander, belief, old belief, salamanders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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