Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 14
Teshumai says: «Really, my Tegumai, you're no better than my Taffy.»
Who acts: Teshumai, you · What happens: say, not be · 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 (Teshumai, you), 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 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 better | punct |
| 5 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 13 better | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tegumai | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Tegumai | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 better | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tegumai | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 better | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 better | cop |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 better | advmod |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 says | ccomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 Taffy | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Taffy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 better | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 18 | » | » | 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 | Teshumai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | you | than my Taffy; my Tegumai vocative; good property | tree rules |
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:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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