Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 8
The Stranger-man is adopted into the Tribe because he was a gentleman about the mud.
Who acts: man · What happens: adopt, be · To what, where: Stranger man, Tribe, gentleman
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 |
| 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adopted | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 gentleman | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gentleman | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gentleman | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gentleman | det |
| 14 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adopted | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 mud | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mud | det |
| 17 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gentleman | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | present · passive | the Stranger man | the Tribe | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | man | a gentleman | about the mud | tree rules |
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:8.
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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