--- title: About 100 starlings were let go in New York's Central Park in 1890 a… — City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows a… · tree and pragmatics description: About 100 starlings were let go in New York's Central Park in 1890 and 1891, and now there are many millions in North America that take nest holes from native birds; the story that a Shakespeare fan did it for the plays is still argued. Who acts: 100 starlings, many millions, Shakespeare fan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (100 starlings, many millions, Shakespeare fan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.lesson:9 # text = About 100 starlings were let go in New York's Central Park in 1890 and 1891, and now there are many millions in North America that take nest holes from native birds; the story that a Shakespeare fan did it for the plays is still argued. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.lesson # annotation = 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 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 starlings starling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 let let VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 Central Central PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1890 1890 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 1891 1891 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Shakespeare Shakespeare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 plays play NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 47 still still ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past · passive | | 100 starlings | | 1890 | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | 100 starlings *not said here* | | | New York's Central Park | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in park=Location | | 3 | **does** | present | many millions in North America | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | many millions in North America | nest holes | | | | from native birds | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme from bird=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **do** | past | a Shakespeare fan | the story | | | | for the plays | tree rules | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | the story | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.lesson:9`. **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. **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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