Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 10
But the Stranger-man reads the picture quite differently.
Who acts: Stranger man · What happens: read · To what, where: picture
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 (Stranger 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 reads | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 3 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stranger | punct |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reads | nsubj |
| 6 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 picture | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reads | obj |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 differently | advmod |
| 10 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 6 reads | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reads | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | the Stranger man | the picture | differently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Topic |
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:10.
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.
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