Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 1

Tegumai says there were no bad people at all, only the poor Stranger-man they are trying to choke.

Who acts: Tegumai, bad people, people · What happens: say, be, try, choke · To what, where: all, poor Stranger man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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 (Tegumai, bad people, people), 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	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 people	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 were	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	16 man	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
14	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Stranger	punct
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	appos
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 trying	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 trying	aux
19	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 man	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 choke	mark
21	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trying	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tegumai			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	no bad people		all; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
3	try	present · progressive	people	the poor Stranger man not said here		tree rules
4	choke not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×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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