Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 6

A man in Queensland tried to pick up a brown snake to move it; it bit him, and he needed antivenom in hospital.

Who acts: man, venom · What happens: try, pick up, move, bite, need · To what, where: brown snake, venom, man, antivenom, hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday 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 (man, venom), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Queensland	case
4	Queensland	Queensland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pick	mark
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pick	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snake	det
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snake	amod
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 move	mark
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pick	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 move	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 bit	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bit	nsubj
17	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bit	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 needed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 needed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 needed	nsubj
22	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bit	conj
23	antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needed	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 hospital	case
25	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past	a man in Queensland			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	a man in Queensland not said here	a brown snake		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic
3	move	to-infinitive	a man in Queensland not said here	venom		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	bite	past	venom	man		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	need	past	man	antivenom	hospital	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antivenom=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:everyday:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:6.

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, R6-punct-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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