Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 11
Teshumai hugs Taffy, and the Head Chief grabs Tegumai by his top-knot feathers and shakes him.
Who acts: Teshumai, Head Chief · What happens: hug, grab, shake · To what, where: Taffy, Tegumai, Chief
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 (Teshumai, Head Chief), 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 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hugs | nsubj |
| 2 | hugs | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hugs | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grabs | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grabs | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chief | det |
| 7 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chief | compound |
| 8 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grabs | nsubj |
| 9 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hugs | conj |
| 10 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grabs | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 feathers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knot | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 top | punct |
| 15 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feathers | compound |
| 16 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grabs | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shakes | cc |
| 18 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 grabs | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shakes | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hugs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | present | Teshumai | Taffy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taffy=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | grab | present | the Head Chief | Tegumai | by Chief's knot feathers | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tegumai=Theme | |||
| 3 | shake | present | the Head Chief not said here | Chief | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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