Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 0
Long, long ago, in the Stone Age, a man called Tegumai lives in a Cave with his wife Teshumai and his little daughter Taffy.
Who acts: man · What happens: call, live · To what, where: man, Stone Age · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» 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 (man), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 lives | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 1 Long | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Age | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Age | det |
| 8 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Age | compound |
| 9 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Age | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | acl |
| 14 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Cave | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Cave | det |
| 18 | Cave | cave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Cave | nmod |
| 22 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wife | appos |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 daughter | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 daughter | amod |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wife | conj |
| 27 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a man not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | present | a man | in the Stone Age | in a Cave with man's wife and man's little daughter; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location |
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:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:0.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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