Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 12

Many people think Māori stories of a huge bird called Pouakai remember Haast's eagle; stories can keep real memories but also change as they are retold.

Who acts: Many people, Māori stories, stories · What happens: think, call, remember, keep, change, retell · To what, where: huge bird, eagle, real memories, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Many people, Māori stories, stories), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stories	compound
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 remember	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 bird	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stories	nmod
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bird	acl
11	Pouakai	Pouakai	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
13	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 eagle	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Haast	case
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remember	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keep	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	parataxis
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 memories	amod
21	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keep	obj
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 change	cc
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 change	advmod
24	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 keep	conj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 retold	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 retold	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 retold	aux:pass
28	retold	retell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 change	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Many people		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	call	participle		a huge bird not said here	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remember	present	Māori stories of a huge bird	Haast's eagle	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
4	keep	can	stories	real memories	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme
5	change	infinitive	stories not said here		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	retell	present · passive		people	tree rules

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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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