Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 22

Hiding under a leaf as Mother Jaguar explains, they say: «I don't like this old lady one little bit.»

Who acts: Hedgehog, Mother Jaguar · What happens: hide, explain, say, not like · To what, where: leaf, old lady · 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 (Hedgehog, 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	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 say	advcl
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 leaf	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 explains	mark
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Jaguar	compound
7	Jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 explains	nsubj
8	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hiding	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 explains	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 like	advmod
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	ccomp
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 lady	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lady	amod
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 like	obj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 bit	nummod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bit	amod
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 like	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	Hedgehog not said here		a leaf		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location
2	explain speech: assert	present	Mother Jaguar				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	Hedgehog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not like in a quote	present · do-support	Hedgehog	this old lady		one little bit obl:unmarked	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lady=Theme

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:22.

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 ×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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