White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 2
Granny says a stork on the roof brings luck, and for many Ukrainians the stork stands for home and spring.
Who acts: Granny, stork · What happens: say, bring, stand · To what, where: luck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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 (Granny, stork), 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 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stork | det |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 roof | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stork | nmod |
| 8 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stands | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stands | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Ukrainians | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Ukrainians | amod |
| 14 | Ukrainians | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 stands | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stork | det |
| 16 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stands | nsubj |
| 17 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stands | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spring | cc |
| 21 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 home | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Granny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | present | a stork on the roof | luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | the stork | for many Ukrainians; for home and spring | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for ukrainian=Attribute |
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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.lesson:2.
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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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