Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 15

The Stranger-man thinks the Chief «pretended not to notice me» because enemies were hiding in the bushes; he «raced off into the bushes like the wind».

Who acts: Stranger man, Chief, enemies · What happens: think, pretend, not notice, hide, race off · To what, where: Stranger man, bushes · 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 (Stranger man, Chief, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Stranger	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinks	nsubj
5	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Chief	det
7	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pretended	nsubj
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 pretended	punct
9	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thinks	ccomp
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 notice	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 notice	mark
12	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pretended	xcomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 notice	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 hiding	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 hiding	mark
16	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hiding	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hiding	aux
18	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pretended	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 bushes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bushes	det
21	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hiding	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 «	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 raced	nsubj
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 raced	punct
25	raced	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thinks	parataxis
26	off	off	ADV	_	25 raced	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 bushes	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bushes	det
29	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 raced	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 raced	obl
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 raced	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the Stranger man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pretend in a quote	past	the Chief				tree rules
3	not notice in a quote	to-infinitive	the Chief not said here	the Stranger man = man			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	hide	past · progressive	enemies		the bushes		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location
5	race off in a quote	past	Chief		the bushes	like the wind; off property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=Destination

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:15.

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. 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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