Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 1
He nods hard, but he is sure it means the great Chief is surrounded by enemies with spears.
Who acts: man, it, enemies · What happens: nod, be, mean, surround · To what, where: great Chief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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 (man, it, enemies), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 nods | nsubj |
| 2 | nods | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 2 nods | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sure | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nods | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Chief | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Chief | amod |
| 13 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 15 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 means | ccomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 enemies | case |
| 17 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 spears | case |
| 19 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 enemies | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nods | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | present | man | hard property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | man | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | surround | present · passive | enemies with spears | the great Chief | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:1.
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): 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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