Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 5

People saw these giants with their own eyes, and some old stories, like the Māori stories of a huge bird called Pouakai, may remember them.

Who acts: People, old stories · What happens: see, call, remember · To what, where: giants, huge bird, 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 (People, old 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 giants	det
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 remember	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 remember	cc
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 stories	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stories	amod
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 remember	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stories	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 stories	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stories	det
17	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 stories	compound
18	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stories	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 bird	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bird	det
21	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bird	amod
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stories	nmod
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bird	acl
24	Pouakai	Pouakai	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stories	punct
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 remember	aux
27	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remember	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	People	this giants	with people's own eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus
2	call	participle		a huge bird not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remember	may	some old stories like the Māori stories of a huge bird	people		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:5.

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, 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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