Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 9
There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily spearing small carp with his mended spear.
Who acts: ladies, Taffy, Tegumai · What happens: find, make, spear, mend · To what, where: Taffy, daisy chains, small carp
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, Taffy, Tegumai), 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 | There | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 find | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chains | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 daisy | punct |
| 8 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 making | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 making | cc |
| 10 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spearing | nsubj |
| 11 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 12 spearing | advmod |
| 12 | spearing | spear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 making | conj |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 carp | amod |
| 14 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spearing | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 spear | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 spear | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 spear | amod |
| 18 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spearing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | ladies = lady | Taffy | there | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent taffy=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | Taffy not said here | daisy chains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product | ||||
| 3 | spear | gerund | Tegumai | small carp | with man's mended spear; happily property | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent carp=Patient with spear=Instrument | |||
| 4 | mend | participle | tree rules |
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:9.
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. 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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