Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 19

«Shi» is Tegumai for spear; he draws it as a plain straight line, «We won't have beavers or hills this time».

Who acts: Shi, Tegumai, We · What happens: be, draw, not have · To what, where: Tegumai, spear, beavers · 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 (Shi, Tegumai, We), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Shi	punct
2	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tegumai	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Shi	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Tegumai	cop
5	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 spear	case
7	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Tegumai	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 draws	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 draws	nsubj
10	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Tegumai	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 draws	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	16 line	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 line	det
14	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 line	amod
15	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 line	amod
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 draws	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
20	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 draws	parataxis
23	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 hills	cc
25	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 beavers	conj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl:unmarked
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Tegumai	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Shi	Tegumai		for spear	tree rules
2	draw	present	Tegumai	spear		as a plain straight line	tree rules
3	not have in a quote	future	We	beavers or hills	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Patient

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:19.

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 ×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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