Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 8

The Stranger-man is thumped, rolled on pebbles and called rude names, but he leads them all back to the river.

Who acts: man · What happens: thump, roll, call, lead · To what, where: Stranger man, pebbles, rude names, names · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Stranger	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thumped	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thumped	aux:pass
6	thumped	thump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rolled	punct
8	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thumped	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 pebbles	case
10	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rolled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 called	cc
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thumped	conj
13	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 names	amod
14	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leads	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 leads	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leads	nsubj
18	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thumped	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leads	obj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 them	nmod:unmarked
21	back	back	ADV	_	18 leads	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 back	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thumped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	thump	present · passive		the Stranger man		vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	roll	participle			pebbles	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pebble=Trajectory
3	call	participle		rude names		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	lead	present	man	names = name		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:8.

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): 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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