Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 3

One day they go fishing for carp in the Wagai river, miles from home, and Tegumai breaks his spear on the river bottom.

Who acts: wife, Tegumai · What happens: go, fish, break · To what, where: miles, spear, river bottom

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 (wife, Tegumai), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fishing	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 go	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 carp	case
7	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fishing	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
10	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 river	compound
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carp	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 miles	punct
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl:unmarked
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 miles	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 breaks	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 breaks	cc
18	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 breaks	nsubj
19	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 spear	nmod:poss
21	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breaks	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 bottom	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bottom	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bottom	compound
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breaks	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	wife	miles from home		day		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fish	gerund	wife not said here				for carp in the Wagai river	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for carp=Theme
3	break	present	Tegumai	Tegumai's spear	the river bottom			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Patient

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:3.

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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