Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 22

The Stranger-man is adopted into the Tribe of Tegumai «because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss about the mud».

Who acts: man · What happens: adopt, be, not make · To what, where: Stranger man, Tribe, gentleman, fuss

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Stranger	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adopted	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 adopted	aux:pass
6	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 Tribe	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tribe	det
9	Tribe	tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 adopted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Tegumai	case
11	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tribe	nmod
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 adopted	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 gentleman	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gentleman	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gentleman	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 gentleman	det
17	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adopted	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 make	advmod
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 adopted	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fuss	det
23	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 mud	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mud	det
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fuss	nmod
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 adopted	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 adopted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	adopt	present · passive		the Stranger man	the Tribe of Tegumai		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a in a quote	past	man	a gentleman			tree rules
3	not make in a quote	past · do-support		a fuss		about the mud	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product

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:22.

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): R8-pos-agree ×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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