Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 24
Jaguar turns it into a rhyme: «Can't curl, but can swim, Slow-Solid, that's him!
Who acts: Jaguar, that · What happens: turn, not curl, swim, be · To what, where: paw, rhyme, Jaguar · 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, that), 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 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turns | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 rhyme | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rhyme | det |
| 6 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 curl | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 curl | punct |
| 9 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 curl | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 curl | advmod |
| 11 | curl | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turns | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swim | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 swim | cc |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 swim | aux |
| 15 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 curl | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Solid | punct |
| 17 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Solid | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Slow | punct |
| 19 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 curl | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 him | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 him | nsubj |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 him | cop |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 curl | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Jaguar | paw | a rhyme | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not curl in a quote | can | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | swim in a quote | can | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that | Jaguar | 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:24.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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