Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 18
What Teshumai sees: Tegumai with his arm broken, a spear in his back, a man ready to throw a spear, another throwing a spear from a Cave, and «a whole pack of people», which are «Taffy's beavers really».
Who acts: Teshumai, Tegumai, another, whole pack · What happens: see, break, throw, be · To what, where: Tegumai, spear, Cave, beavers · 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, Tegumai, another, whole pack), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 sees | obj |
| 2 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tegumai | punct |
| 5 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tegumai | nmod |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Tegumai | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spear | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spear | det |
| 12 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tegumai | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spear | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ready | nsubj |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Tegumai | amod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 throw | mark |
| 21 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ready | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spear | det |
| 23 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 throw | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 throwing | punct |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 throwing | nsubj |
| 26 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 ready | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 spear | det |
| 28 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 throwing | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Cave | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 Cave | det |
| 31 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 throwing | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pack | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 pack | cc |
| 34 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 pack | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 pack | det |
| 36 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 pack | amod |
| 37 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tegumai | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 people | case |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pack | nmod |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 pack | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 beavers | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 beavers | nsubj |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 beavers | cop |
| 44 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 47 beavers | punct |
| 45 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 beavers | nmod:poss |
| 46 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 45 Taffy | case |
| 47 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pack | acl:relcl |
| 48 | really | really | ADV | _ | 47 beavers | advmod |
| 49 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 47 beavers | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | 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 | see | present | Teshumai | Tegumai and a spear in man's back and a whole pack of people | with man's arm | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | participle | Tegumai and a spear in man's back and a whole pack of people not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | throw | to-infinitive | Tegumai and a spear in man's back and a whole pack of people not said here | a spear | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | gerund | another | a spear | a Cave | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent spear=Theme from cave=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | a whole pack of people | Taffy's beavers | 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:18.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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