Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 0

In 1741 sailors stranded on cold islands in the far north Pacific saw huge gentle animals grazing on kelp near the shore, up to about eight metres long.

Who acts: sailors, huge gentle animals · What happens: strand, see, graze · To what, where: sailors, cold islands, huge gentle animals, 1741

This is a sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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 (sailors, huge gentle animals), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1741	case
2	1741	1741	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 saw	obl
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saw	nsubj
4	stranded	strand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sailors	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 islands	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 islands	amod
7	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stranded	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 Pacific	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pacific	det
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 north	advmod
11	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Pacific	compound
12	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stranded	obl
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
15	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saw	obj
17	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 animals	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 kelp	case
19	kelp	kelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grazing	obl
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 shore	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shore	det
22	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grazing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 up	punct
24	up	up	ADV	_	17 grazing	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 metres	case
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 eight	advmod
27	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 metres	nummod
28	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 long	obl
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 up	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strand	participle		sailors not said here	cold islands	in the north Pacific	tree rules
2	see	past	sailors	huge gentle animals	1741		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
3	graze	gerund	huge gentle animals not said here			near the shore; on kelp	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on kelp=Patient

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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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