The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 11
Old Man Kangaroo is chased from the middle of Australia, mostly hot desert and dry grassland, past the Flinders and the Darling Downs; most Australians live near the coasts, where it rains more.
Who acts: most Australians, it · What happens: chase, live, rain · To what, where: Man Kangaroo, middle, coasts
This is a sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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 (most Australians, it), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Man | amod |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Kangaroo | compound |
| 3 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chased | aux:pass |
| 5 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Australia | case |
| 10 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desert | punct |
| 12 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 desert | advmod |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 desert | amod |
| 14 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grassland | cc |
| 16 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grassland | amod |
| 17 | grassland | grassland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 desert | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Flinders | punct |
| 19 | past | past | ADP | _ | 21 Flinders | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Flinders | det |
| 21 | Flinders | Flinders | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 chased | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Downs | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Downs | det |
| 24 | Darling | darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Downs | compound |
| 25 | Downs | Downs | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Flinders | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 live | punct |
| 27 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 Australians | amod |
| 28 | Australians | australian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 live | nsubj |
| 29 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chased | parataxis |
| 30 | near | near | ADP | _ | 32 coasts | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 coasts | det |
| 32 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 live | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rains | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 rains | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 rains | nsubj |
| 36 | rains | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 coasts | acl:relcl |
| 37 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 rains | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present · passive | Man Kangaroo | the middle of Australia | past the Flinders and the Darling Downs | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from middle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | live | present | most Australians | the coasts | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near coast=Location | ||||
| 3 | rain | present | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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.
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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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