Respecting wild animals, sentence 21
A family in Yellowstone walked up close to a bison to take a photo; it charged and threw the father into the air, and he was taken to hospital with broken ribs.
Who acts: family · What happens: walk, take, charge, throw, break · To what, where: photo, father, air, Yellowstone, hospital
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» 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 (family), 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 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Yellowstone | case |
| 4 | Yellowstone | Yellowstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 walked | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bison | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bison | det |
| 10 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 walked | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 photo | det |
| 14 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 charged | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 charged | nsubj |
| 17 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 threw | cc |
| 19 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 charged | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 father | det |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 threw | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 threw | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 taken | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 taken | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 taken | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux:pass |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 charged | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 hospital | case |
| 31 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 ribs | case |
| 33 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 ribs | amod |
| 34 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 taken | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | a family in Yellowstone | close property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | a family in Yellowstone not said here | a photo | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | ||||
| 3 | charge | past | family | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | throw | past | family not said here | the father | into the air result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer father=Theme into air=Result | |||
| 5 | take | past · passive | Yellowstone | hospital | with broken ribs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination | |||
| 6 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:21.
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, 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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