Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 17

Island giants often had no fear of people, and hunting, new animals like rats and dogs and cut forests hit them all together.

Who acts: Island giants, hunting · What happens: have, cut, hit, fear · To what, where: fear, giants, people

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 (Island giants, hunting), 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	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 giants	compound
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 fear	det
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fear	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hit	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hunting	cc
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hit	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 animals	punct
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animals	amod
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunting	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 rats	case
16	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 animals	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dogs	cc
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rats	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 forests	cc
20	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 forests	amod
21	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rats	conj
22	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hit	obj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 them	nmod:unmarked
25	together	together	ADV	_	22 hit	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Island giants	no fear of people	often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
2	cut	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	hit	past	hunting and new animals like rats and dogs and cut forests	giants = giant	together property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
4	fear			people		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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:17.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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