Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 18
His «mendy-bag» holds reindeer-sinews (tough strings from an animal's body), strips of leather, bee's-wax and resin (sticky tree-gum).
Who acts: mendy bag · What happens: hold · To what, where: reindeer sinews
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 (mendy bag), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bag | nmod:poss |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 bag | punct |
| 3 | mendy | mendy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bag | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mendy | punct |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | nsubj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 bag | punct |
| 7 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sinews | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sinews | punct |
| 10 | sinews | sinew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 holds | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 strings | punct |
| 12 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 strings | amod |
| 13 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sinews | appos |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 animal | det |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 animal | case |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strings | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 strings | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 strips | punct |
| 21 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sinews | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 leather | case |
| 23 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strips | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bee's | punct |
| 25 | bee's | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reindeer | conj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 wax | punct |
| 27 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bee's | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 resin | cc |
| 29 | resin | resin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wax | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 gum | punct |
| 31 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 gum | amod |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gum | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 tree | punct |
| 34 | gum | gum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 resin | appos |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 gum | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | fish's mendy bag | reindeer sinews and strips of leather | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinew=Theme |
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:18.
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 ×5. 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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