Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 21
His advice: next time «send a man who can talk our language with it, to explain what it means».
Who acts: you, man, » · What happens: send, talk, explain, mean · To what, where: man, language · 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 (you, man, »), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 advice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | dislocated |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 talk | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 talk | aux |
| 12 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 language | nmod:poss |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talk | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 talk | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 explain | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 explain | mark |
| 19 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 send | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 means | obj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 means | nsubj |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 explain | ccomp |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a man | time | man's advice dislocated | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||
| 2 | talk in a quote | can | a man | our language | with » | tree rules | |||
| 3 | explain speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | » | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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:21.
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 ×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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