Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 5
Taffy wishes they could write, so they could send a message home for Daddy's other spear, the big black-handled one.
Who acts: Taffy, wife · What happens: wish, write, send, handle · To what, where: message · 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, wife), 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 wishes | nsubj |
| 2 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 write | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 write | aux |
| 5 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wishes | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 send | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 send | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 send | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 send | aux |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 write | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 message | det |
| 12 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 send | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 spear | case |
| 15 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spear | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Daddy | case |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spear | amod |
| 18 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spear | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 one | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 handled | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 black | punct |
| 24 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 one | amod |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spear | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | Taffy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | write | could | wife | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send | could | wife | a message | for Daddy's other spear; home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | |||
| 4 | handle | participle | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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