Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 17

For «Oh!» they draw a round shape like an egg or a stone, because your mouth is round when you say it.

Who acts: eyes, mouth, you · What happens: draw, be, say · To what, where: round shape, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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 (eyes, mouth, you), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 Oh	case
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 Oh	punct
3	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 draw	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Oh	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 Oh	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 draw	nsubj
7	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shape	det
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shape	amod
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 egg	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 egg	det
13	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 stone	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stone	det
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 egg	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 round	mark
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouth	nmod:poss
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 round	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 round	cop
22	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 draw	advcl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 say	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
25	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 round	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 say	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	present	eyes = eye	a round shape	like a egg or a stone	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	is	present	your mouth		round property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	you	mouth		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:17.

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 ×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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