Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 17

Jaguar says «to save my spots» and «You are making my spots ache»; in old English «paddy-paw» is a baby word for paw.

Who acts: Jaguar, You, spots, paddy paw · What happens: say, save, make, ache, be · To what, where: spots, baby word, old English · 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 (Jaguar, You, spots, paddy paw), 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	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 spots	nmod:poss
7	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 save	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 making	cc
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 making	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 making	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 making	aux
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 spots	nmod:poss
15	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 making	obj
16	ache	ache	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 making	xcomp
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 making	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 word	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 English	case
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 English	amod
21	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 word	obl
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 paw	punct
23	paddy	paddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paw	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 paddy	punct
25	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 word	nsubj
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 paw	punct
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 word	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 word	det
29	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 word	compound
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 paw	case
32	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 word	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jaguar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	save in a quote	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here	my spots			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
3	make in a quote	present · progressive	You	my spots			tree rules
4	ache in a quote	infinitive	my spots not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	paddy paw	a baby word	old English	for paw	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:17.

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): 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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