Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 13
«Turbid» means muddy and cloudy; Kipling calls the Amazon «the turbid Amazon» again and again.
Who acts: Turbid, Kipling · What happens: mean, call · To what, where: Amazon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Turbid, Kipling), 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 | « | « | SYM | _ | 2 Turbid | discourse |
| 2 | Turbid | turbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turbid | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cloudy | cc |
| 7 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 muddy | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 calls | punct |
| 9 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | nsubj |
| 10 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Amazon | det |
| 12 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | obj |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 Amazon | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Amazon | det |
| 15 | turbid | turbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Amazon | amod |
| 16 | Amazon | amazon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Amazon | appos |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 Amazon | punct |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 calls | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 again | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 again | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Turbid | muddy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | present | Kipling | the Amazon | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent amazon=Recipient |
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:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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