Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 1
Nobody in the family can read or write, and they do not mind.
Who acts: Nobody, wife · What happens: read, write, not mind
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 (Nobody, wife), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 read | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 family | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 family | det |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nobody | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | aux |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 write | cc |
| 8 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 read | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mind | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mind | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mind | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 mind | advmod |
| 14 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 read | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | 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 | read | can | Nobody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | write | infinitive | Nobody not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not mind | present · do-support | wife | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:1.
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): no change. 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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