Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 17

Teshumai: «It's as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man's face»; this means it's very clear, but she is quite wrong.

Who acts: Teshumai, this, wind · What happens: be, mean · 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 (Teshumai, this, wind), 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	7 plain	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 plain	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 plain	punct
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plain	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plain	cop
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 plain	advmod
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 nose	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nose	det
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plain	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 Stranger	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 Stranger	det
13	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nose	nmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 face	punct
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nose	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 plain	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 means	nsubj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plain	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 clear	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 clear	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 clear	advmod
25	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wrong	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 wrong	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wrong	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wrong	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 wrong	advmod
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plain	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 plain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Teshumai	as the nose on this Stranger man's face; plain property	tree rules
2	mean	present	this		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	wind	clear property	tree rules
4	is	present	Teshumai	wrong property	tree rules

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:17.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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