The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 9

Water voles have vanished from most of the places in Britain where they once lived, mainly because American mink that escaped from fur farms hunt them in their burrows, and because river banks were cleared and walled.

Who acts: Water voles, places, American mink · What happens: vanish, live, escape, hunt, clear, wall · To what, where: most, fur farms, places, burrows, river banks

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river 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 (Water voles, places, American mink), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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