Tsunamis, sentence 4
Often the sea first drains far back from the beach, which tempts people to go and look; the right thing is to run to high ground at once, because the waves come in a train and the first is often not the biggest.
Who acts: sea, beach, right thing, waves, first · What happens: drain, tempt, go, look, be, come · To what, where: beach, people, train
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» of the geography 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 (sea, beach, right thing, waves), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 5 drains | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drains | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 drains | advmod |
| 5 | drains | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 back | advmod |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 drains | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 beach | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beach | det |
| 10 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drains | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tempts | nsubj |
| 13 | tempts | tempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beach | acl:relcl |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tempts | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tempts | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 look | cc |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 run | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 run | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 run | mark |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 drains | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ground | case |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ground | amod |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 run | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 once | case |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 run | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 come | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 waves | det |
| 34 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 come | nsubj |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 run | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 train | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 train | det |
| 38 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 biggest | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 first | det |
| 41 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 46 biggest | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 biggest | cop |
| 43 | often | often | ADV | _ | 46 biggest | advmod |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 biggest | advmod |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 biggest | det |
| 46 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 come | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drain | present | the sea | the beach | first, often property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from beach=Source | |||
| 2 | tempt | present | the beach | people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the beach not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | the beach not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the right thing | to high ground; run property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | present | the waves | a train | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in train=Location | ||||
| 7 | not is | present | the first | big, often property | tree rules |
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:geography:045-tsunamis.lesson:4.
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 ×2, 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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