Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 14
Mother Jaguar's rule: «when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw».
Who acts: you, Jaguar, Mother Jaguar · What happens: find, drop, uncoil, catch, scoop, rule · To what, where: Hedgehog, Jaguar, water, Tortoise, shell
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 (you, Jaguar, Mother 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jaguar | compound |
| 2 | Jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rule | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Jaguar | case |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 rule | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 find | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drop | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Hedgehog | det |
| 11 | Hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 drop | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 drop | aux |
| 14 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rule | appos |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drop | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drop | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 uncoil | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 uncoil | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 uncoil | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 uncoil | aux |
| 23 | uncoil | uncoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 drop | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 scoop | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 scoop | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 catch | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 catch | nsubj |
| 28 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 scoop | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Tortoise | det |
| 30 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 catch | obj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 scoop | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 scoop | aux |
| 33 | scoop | scoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 drop | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 scoop | obj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 shell | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 shell | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 shell | nmod:poss |
| 38 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scoop | obl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 paw | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 paw | nmod:poss |
| 41 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scoop | obl |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 rule | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present | you | a Hedgehog | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drop in a quote | must | you | Jaguar | the water | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 3 | uncoil in a quote | future | Jaguar | then | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | catch in a quote | present | you | a Tortoise | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | scoop in a quote | must | you | Jaguar | Jaguar's shell | with your paw | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out shell=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | rule | Mother Jaguar | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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