Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 19

A boy in California sat on a fire ant nest at a picnic; hundreds of ants stung him, and he had painful blisters for days.

Who acts: boy, hundreds · What happens: sit, sting, have · To what, where: ant nest, boy, painful blisters

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (boy, hundreds), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 California	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 nest	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nest	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ant	compound
9	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nest	compound
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 picnic	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 picnic	det
13	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stung	punct
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stung	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 ants	case
17	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hundreds	nmod
18	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stung	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
24	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 blisters	amod
25	blisters	blister	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 days	case
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a boy in California		a ant nest		at a picnic	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location
2	sting	past	hundreds of ants	boy				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	have	past	boy	painful blisters		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blister=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:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:19.

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, 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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