Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 3
By chance the Stranger-man finds Teshumai at her Cave, having lunch with other Stone Age ladies.
Who acts: Stranger man · What happens: find, have · To what, where: Teshumai, Cave, lunch
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), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 chance | case |
| 2 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 4 | Stranger | Stranger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Stranger | punct |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | nsubj |
| 7 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Cave | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Cave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Cave | cave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 finds | advcl |
| 14 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 ladies | case |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ladies | amod |
| 17 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Age | compound |
| 18 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ladies | compound |
| 19 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 having | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | the Stranger man | Teshumai | Teshumai's Cave | by chance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent teshumai=Theme at cave=Asset | ||
| 2 | have | gerund | the Stranger man not said here | lunch | with other Age ladies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=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:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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