Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 5
Hedgehog says «you can scoop me out of my shell», so Jaguar thinks he must be Tortoise and grabs him.
Who acts: Hedgehog, you, Jaguar · What happens: say, scoop, think, be, grab · To what, where: Hedgehog, shell, Tortoise, 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 (Hedgehog, you, 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 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 scoop | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 scoop | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 scoop | aux |
| 6 | scoop | scoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 scoop | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 shell | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shell | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shell | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scoop | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 scoop | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinks | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 thinks | advmod |
| 15 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thinks | nsubj |
| 16 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Tortoise | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 Tortoise | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Tortoise | cop |
| 20 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thinks | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grabs | cc |
| 22 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thinks | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grabs | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Hedgehog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | scoop in a quote | can | you | Hedgehog | my shell | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out shell=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Jaguar | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | Jaguar | Tortoise | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grab | present | Jaguar not said here | Jaguar | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:5.
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 ×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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