Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 12

Jaguar sits on the bank sucking prickles from his paws and saying his rhyme; Hedgehog says he will not forget it «this month of Sundays», which means for a very long time.

Who acts: Jaguar, Hedgehog · What happens: sit, suck, say, not forget, mean, rhyme · To what, where: bank, prickles, paws, rhyme · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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, Hedgehog), 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 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
6	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sits	advcl
7	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sucking	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 paws	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 paws	nmod:poss
10	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sucking	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saying	cc
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sucking	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 rhyme	nmod:poss
14	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saying	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
16	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forget	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 forget	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 forget	advmod
21	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 says	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forget	obj
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 month	punct
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 month	det
25	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forget	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 »	case
27	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 month	nmod
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 month	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 means	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 means	nsubj
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 time	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 time	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 long	advmod
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sits	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	present	Jaguar		the bank		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	suck	gerund	Jaguar not said here	prickles	Jaguar's paws		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prickle=Theme from paw=Source
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Jaguar not said here	Jaguar's rhyme			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	Hedgehog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not forget	future	Jaguar	rhyme		month	tree rules
6	mean	present				time	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	rhyme		Jaguar				nom rhyme «communication 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:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:12.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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