Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 2
Cook kept his crew healthy with fresh food and sauerkraut, carried scientists and artists who drew strange new animals like the kangaroo, and sailed further south than anyone, until walls of ice turned him back.
Who acts: Cook, scientists, walls · What happens: keep, carry, draw, sail, turn back · To what, where: crew, scientists, strange new animals, Cook
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history 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 (Cook, scientists, walls), 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 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 crew | nmod:poss |
| 4 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obj |
| 5 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sauerkraut | cc |
| 10 | sauerkraut | sauerkraut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 13 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 artists | cc |
| 15 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 scientists | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 scientists | acl:relcl |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 animals | amod |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 animals | amod |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drew | obj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 kangaroo | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kangaroo | det |
| 23 | kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 animals | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sailed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sailed | cc |
| 26 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 27 | further | further | ADV | _ | 28 south | advmod |
| 28 | south | south | ADV | _ | 26 sailed | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 anyone | case |
| 30 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 sailed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 turned | punct |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 turned | mark |
| 33 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 turned | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 ice | case |
| 35 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 walls | nmod |
| 36 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sailed | advcl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 turned | obj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 turned | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Cook | Cook's crew | with fresh food and sauerkraut; healthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Cook not said here | scientists and artists | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scientist=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | scientists and artists | strange new animals | like the kangaroo | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 4 | sail | past | Cook not said here | than anyone; south property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn back | past | walls of ice | Cook | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:history:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:2.
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. 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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