Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 24
The same emoji can mean different things to different people, which is one reason we use words when it matters.
Who acts: same emoji, different things, we, it · What happens: mean, be, use, matter · To what, where: different things, one reason, words
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 (same emoji, different things, we, it), 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 | 3 emoji | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 emoji | amod |
| 3 | emoji | emoji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mean | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mean | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reason | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 reason | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reason | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 reason | nummod |
| 15 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | conj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nsubj |
| 17 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reason | acl:relcl |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 use | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 matters | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 matters | nsubj |
| 21 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 use | advcl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | the same emoji | different things and one reason | to different people | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme to people=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | different things and one reason | one reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present | we | words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | matter | present | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:24.
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. 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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