Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 16

Gigantopithecus died out a few hundred thousand years ago when its forests changed and fruit grew scarce, and there is no good evidence it lives on as a Yeti or Bigfoot.

Who acts: Gigantopithecus, forests, fruit, good evidence, evidence · What happens: die out, change, grow, be, live on · To what, where: good evidence

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (Gigantopithecus, forests, fruit, good evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

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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