Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 1

A carp-tail and a round egg make «yo», bad swamp-water; scratched beside a pool, it would warn Taffy «don't drink this» even if Daddy were miles away hunting.

Who acts: carp tail, yo, Daddy · What happens: make, scratch, warn, not drink, be, hunt · To what, where: yo, pool, Taffy, this, miles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (carp tail, yo, Daddy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tail	det
2	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 carp	punct
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 egg	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 egg	det
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 egg	amod
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	conj
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 yo	punct
11	yo	yo	NOUN	_	9 make	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 yo	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
15	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 water	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 swamp	punct
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yo	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 scratched	punct
19	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 yo	acl:relcl
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 pool	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pool	det
22	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scratched	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 warn	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 warn	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 warn	aux
26	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	parataxis
27	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 warn	obj
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 drink	punct
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 drink	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 drink	advmod
31	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 warn	ccomp
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 drink	obj
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 drink	punct
34	even	even	ADV	_	38 miles	advmod
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 miles	mark
36	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 miles	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 miles	cop
38	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drink	advcl
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 miles	advmod
40	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 miles	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive	a carp tail and a round egg	yo bad swamp water				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yo=Product
2	scratch	participle		yo bad swamp water not said here		a pool		vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent beside pool=Location
3	warn speech: warn	would	yo		Taffy			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not drink in a quote	infinitive · do-support		this				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	Daddy	miles			away property	tree rules
6	hunt	gerund	Daddy not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:1.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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