Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 0
Tegumai shows Taffy the big secret: put two sound-signs side by side and you get a word.
Who acts: Tegumai, you · What happens: show, put, get · To what, where: big secret, Taffy, two sound signs, word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» 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 (Tegumai, 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 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 secret | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 secret | amod |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 secret | parataxis |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 signs | nummod |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signs | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sound | punct |
| 12 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | fixed |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | fixed |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Tegumai | the big secret | Taffy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient secret=Topic | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | two sound signs | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sign=Goal | |||||
| 3 | get | present | you | a word | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:0.
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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