Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 11
Daddy told her it would rain without saying a word, and they both dance for joy.
Who acts: Daddy, it, tail · What happens: tell, rain, say, dance · To what, where: raindrop, word · 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 (Daddy, it, tail), 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 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rain | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 rain | aux |
| 6 | rain | rain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 saying | mark |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rain | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dance | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dance | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dance | nsubj |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 dance | det |
| 15 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dance | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Daddy | raindrop | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rain | would | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 4 | dance | present | tail | for joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:11.
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 ×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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