Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 23
Real life: our letter O began as a picture of an eye, a round shape, not an egg; Kipling's egg is not so far off.
Who acts: letter, egg, our · What happens: begin, not be, letter
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 (letter, egg, our), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 letter | punct |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 letter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 life | conj |
| 6 | O | o | ADV | _ | 7 began | advmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 letter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 picture | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eye | det |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picture | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shape | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shape | det |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shape | amod |
| 17 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eye | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 egg | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 egg | advmod |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 egg | det |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 letter | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 egg | punct |
| 23 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 egg | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Kipling | case |
| 25 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 far | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 far | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 far | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 far | advmod |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 life | parataxis |
| 30 | off | off | ADV | _ | 29 far | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | our letter and a egg not said here | as a picture of a eye | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Kipling's egg | far, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | letter | our | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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:23.
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): R5-strong ×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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