Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 9
A pelican's pouch can hold about 10 litres of water; it drains the water out of the sides of the bill and swallows the fish, and pelicans do not fly about carrying fish in the pouch.
Who acts: pouch, pelicans · What happens: hold, drain, swallow, not fly, carry · To what, where: 10 litres, water, sides, fish, pouch
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: who acts (pouch, pelicans), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pelican | det |
| 2 | pelican | pelican | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pelican | case |
| 4 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | aux |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 10 | advmod |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 litres | nummod |
| 9 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hold | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 litres | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 drains | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drains | nsubj |
| 14 | drains | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drains | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sides | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sides | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sides | det |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 water | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bill | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bill | det |
| 23 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sides | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 swallows | cc |
| 25 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drains | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fish | det |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swallows | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fly | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fly | cc |
| 30 | pelicans | pelican | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fly | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fly | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 fly | advmod |
| 33 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hold | conj |
| 34 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 35 carrying | mark |
| 35 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 fly | advcl |
| 36 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 carrying | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 pouch | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pouch | det |
| 39 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carrying | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | can | a pelican's pouch | 10 litres of water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drain | present | pouch | the water | the sides of the bill | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme out side=Source | |||
| 3 | swallow | present | pouch not said here | the fish | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not fly | present · do-support | pelicans | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | pelicans not said here | fish | the pouch | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Value in pouch=Location |
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:9.
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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