Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 18

Tegumai first thinks of «a spotty snake that hisses sh-sh», but Taffy fears the spots could be left out in a hurry, so for sh they put a picture of the drying-poles themselves «just after the hissy-snake», «to make quite sure».

Who acts: Tegumai, spotty snake, Taffy, spots · What happens: think, hiss, fear, leave out, put, make · To what, where: sh sh, spots, hurry, picture · 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 (Tegumai, spotty snake, Taffy, spots), 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	3 thinks	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	_	3 thinks	advmod
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 snake	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snake	det
7	spotty	spotty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snake	amod
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hisses	nsubj
10	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snake	acl:relcl
11	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sh	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sh	punct
13	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hisses	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 hisses	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fears	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fears	cc
17	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fears	nsubj
18	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 spots	det
20	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 left	nsubj:pass
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 left	aux:pass
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fears	ccomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 left	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hurry	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hurry	det
27	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 put	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 sh	case
31	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 put	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 put	nsubj
33	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 picture	det
35	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 poles	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 poles	det
38	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 poles	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 drying	punct
40	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 picture	nmod
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 poles	nmod
42	«	«	PUNCT	_	48 snake	punct
43	just	just	ADV	_	48 snake	advmod
44	after	after	ADP	_	48 snake	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 snake	det
46	hissy	hissy	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 snake	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 hissy	punct
48	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
49	»	»	PUNCT	_	48 snake	punct
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
51	«	«	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
52	to	to	PART	_	53 make	mark
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 put	advcl
54	quite	quite	ADV	_	55 sure	advmod
55	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 make	xcomp
56	»	»	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Tegumai				of a spotty snake; first property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hiss in a quote	present	a spotty snake	sh sh				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sh=Topic
3	fear	present	Taffy					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	leave out	could · passive		the spots	a hurry			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	put	past	spots = spot	a picture of the drying poles spots		after the hissy snake	for sh	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent picture=Goal
6	make in a quote	to-infinitive	spots = spot not said here				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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