Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 11
Tegumai to his Tribe: «Can't a man break his carp-spear without the whole countryside descending on him?
Who acts: whole countryside · What happens: not break, descend · To what, where: carp spear
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 (whole countryside), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Tribe | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Tribe | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tegumai | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | nsubj |
| 7 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 break | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | nsubj |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tegumai | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spear | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 carp | punct |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | obj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 countryside | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 countryside | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 countryside | amod |
| 19 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | obl |
| 20 | descending | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 countryside | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 descending | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tegumai | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=assert, indirect=1, polarity=neg, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break in a quote | can | Kipling's carp spear | without the whole countryside | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | descend in a quote | gerund | the whole countryside not said here | on Kipling | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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