Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 12
Black Sea dolphins were hunted for oil and meat until hunting was banned, in the Soviet Union in 1966.
What happens: hunt, ban · To what, where: Sea dolphins, hunting, Soviet Union
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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: 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 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sea | compound |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dolphins | compound |
| 3 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunted | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunted | aux:pass |
| 5 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 oil | case |
| 7 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunted | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 meat | cc |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oil | conj |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 banned | mark |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 banned | aux:pass |
| 13 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hunted | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Union | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Union | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Union | det |
| 17 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Union | compound |
| 18 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 banned | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1966 | case |
| 20 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 banned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · passive | Sea dolphins | for oil and meat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for oil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ban | past · passive | hunting | the Soviet Union | in 1966 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:12.
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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