Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 9

In the poem, Kipling places the story on Merrow Down near Guildford in Surrey, England, where the river Wey, which Taffy called Wagai, runs.

Who acts: Kipling, Taffy · What happens: place, call, run · To what, where: story, poem, river Wey · 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 (Kipling, Taffy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 poem	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 poem	det
3	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 places	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 places	punct
5	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 places	nsubj
6	places	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 places	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Down	case
10	Merrow	Merrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Down	compound
11	Down	Down	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 story	nmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 Guildford	case
13	Guildford	Guildford	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Down	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Surrey	case
15	Surrey	Surrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 places	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 England	punct
17	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Surrey	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Wey	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 Wey	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Wey	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Wey	compound
22	Wey	Wey	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Surrey	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 called	obj
25	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	nsubj
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Wey	acl:relcl
27	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 runs	punct
29	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 places	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 places	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	present	Kipling	the story	the poem	on Merrow Down near Guildford; in Surrey England	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme on down=Destination
2	call	past	Taffy	the river Wey			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
3	run	present	Kipling not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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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