Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 7
The ladies fill the poor man's hair with mud, bang the tribal drums and call every chief of the Tribe.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: fill, bang, call · To what, where: hair, tribal drums, chief · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ladies | det |
| 2 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fill | nsubj |
| 3 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fill | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 mud | case |
| 10 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fill | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bang | punct |
| 12 | bang | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fill | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drums | det |
| 14 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 drums | amod |
| 15 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bang | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 call | cc |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fill | conj |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 chief | det |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Tribe | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Tribe | det |
| 22 | Tribe | tribe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 chief | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | the ladies | the poor man's hair | with mud | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient with mud=Instrument | |||
| 2 | bang | present | the ladies not said here | the tribal drums | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present | the ladies not said here | every chief of the Tribe | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient |
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:7.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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