Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 20
«Shu» means sky; its end sound is «the round-egg-sound made thin».
Who acts: Shu, end sound · What happens: mean, be, make · To what, where: sky, round egg sound · 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 (Shu, end sound), 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 Shu | punct |
| 2 | Shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shu | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sound | nmod:poss |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | compound |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sound | cop |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 sound | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sound | det |
| 13 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sound | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 round | punct |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 egg | punct |
| 17 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | conj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sound | acl |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 made | xcomp |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 sound | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Shu | sky | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | sky's end sound | the round egg sound | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | participle | the round egg sound not said here | thin 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:20.
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): R6-punct-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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