Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 18
The Head Chief: «It is a great invention, and some day men will call it writing.
Who acts: », day men · What happens: be, call · To what, where: great invention, » · 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 (», day men), 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 | 3 Chief | det |
| 2 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Chief | compound |
| 3 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chief | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 invention | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 invention | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 invention | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 invention | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 invention | amod |
| 10 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Chief | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 call | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 men | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | compound |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 call | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | aux |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 invention | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chief | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | » | a great invention | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | future | some day men | » | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:18.
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, 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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