Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 19
Tegumai: «I believe we've found out the big secret of the world.» The book has small pictures of each sign, numbered (1.), (2.) and so on.
Who acts: Taffy, we, book · What happens: believe, find out, have, number · To what, where: big secret, small pictures · 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 (Taffy, we, book), 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 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tegumai | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tegumai | parataxis |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 found | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 secret | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 secret | amod |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 secret | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 book | det |
| 19 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tegumai | parataxis |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pictures | amod |
| 22 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 has | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sign | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 sign | det |
| 25 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pictures | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 numbered | punct |
| 27 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pictures | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 1 | punct |
| 29 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 has | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 1 | punct |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 1 | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 2 | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 2 | punct |
| 34 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 has | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 2 | punct |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 2 | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 on | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 on | advmod |
| 39 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 has | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tegumai | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | Taffy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | present · perfect | we | the big secret of the world | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the book | small pictures of each sign | 1 obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | number | participle | small pictures of each sign not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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. 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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