Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 10
Long before ancient Britons traded there, he says, Taffy and her Daddy had their home on that down.
Who acts: ancient Britons, Kipling, Taffy · What happens: trade, say, have · To what, where: home, down · 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 (ancient Britons, Kipling, Taffy), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 traded | mark |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Britons | amod |
| 4 | Britons | briton | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 traded | nsubj |
| 5 | traded | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | advcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 traded | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Daddy | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Taffy | conj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 down | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 down | det |
| 20 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | past | ancient Britons | there | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Kipling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Taffy and Taffy's Daddy | Britons's home | that down | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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