Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 16

Taffy offers to run home for the other spear, but Tegumai says it is too far, and she might fall into the beaver-swamp on the way.

Who acts: Taffy, Tegumai, spear, Teshumai · What happens: offer, run, say, be, fall · To what, where: home, beaver swamp · 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 (Taffy, Tegumai, spear, Teshumai), 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	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 offers	nsubj
2	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 run	mark
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 offers	xcomp
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 spear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spear	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spear	amod
9	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
12	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 offers	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 far	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 far	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 says	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fall	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fall	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fall	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fall	aux
22	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 far	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	27 swamp	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 swamp	det
25	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swamp	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 beaver	punct
27	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fall	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fall	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	present	Taffy				tree rules
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	Taffy not said here	home		for the other spear	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent home=Product for spear=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	present	Tegumai				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	spear			far property	tree rules
5	fall	might	Teshumai		the beaver swamp	on the way	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=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:16.

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 ×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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