Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 10
The friends, listening from under a leaf, are worried: even Jaguar cannot forget such clear directions.
Who acts: friends, Jaguar · What happens: listen, be, not forget · To what, where: such clear directions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the books 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 (friends, Jaguar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 friends | det |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 worried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 listening | punct |
| 4 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 friends | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 leaf | case |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 leaf | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 leaf | det |
| 8 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listening | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worried | cop |
| 11 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 worried | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 Jaguar | advmod |
| 14 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 forget | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 forget | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 forget | advmod |
| 17 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 worried | parataxis |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 directions | amod |
| 19 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 directions | amod |
| 20 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 forget | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 worried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | gerund | the friends not said here | from a leaf | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from leaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the friends | worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not forget | can | Jaguar | such clear directions | 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:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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