Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 4

Then she tells the whole Tribe they are «just the stupidest people in the world» and orders them to wash the nice Stranger-man.

Who acts: spear, people · What happens: tell, be, order, wash · To what, where: whole Tribe, stupidest people, world, people, nice Stranger man · 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 (spear, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tells	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tribe	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Tribe	amod
6	Tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 people	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 people	cop
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 people	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	stupidest	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tells	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 orders	cc
19	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 orders	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wash	mark
22	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 orders	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
24	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
25	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Stranger	punct
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wash	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	spear	the whole Tribe			then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribe=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	people	the stupidest people		the world		tree rules
3	order	present	spear not said here		people			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	spear not said here	the nice Stranger man				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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:4.

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, 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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