Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 5

She takes one look, screams, and the ladies knock him down and sit on him in a long line of six, while Teshumai pulls his hair.

Who acts: Teshumai, ladies · What happens: take, scream, knock down, sit, pull · To what, where: one look, man, long line, hair

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, ladies), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 look	nummod
4	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 screams	punct
6	screams	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knock	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knock	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ladies	det
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knock	nsubj
11	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knock	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 knock	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sit	cc
15	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 knock	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sit	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 line	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 line	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 line	amod
21	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sit	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 six	case
23	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 line	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pulls	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 pulls	mark
26	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pulls	nsubj
27	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sit	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pulls	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	Teshumai	one look			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme
2	scream speech: express	present	Teshumai not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	knock down	present	the ladies	man			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	sit	present	the ladies not said here		a long line of six	on man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location
5	pull	present	Teshumai	man's hair			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

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:5.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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