Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 22
So Daddy opens «a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo».
Who acts: Daddy, O noise · What happens: open, show, run out · To what, where: little hole, end · 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, O noise), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 opens | advmod |
| 2 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 opens | nsubj |
| 3 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 opens | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hole | amod |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opens | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 egg | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 egg | det |
| 13 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 egg | amod |
| 14 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 show | mark |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opens | advcl |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 thin | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 noise | det |
| 19 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 noise | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 O | punct |
| 21 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 runs | nsubj |
| 22 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | ccomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 runs | compound:prt |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 thin | advmod |
| 25 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 runs | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thin | punct |
| 27 | ooo | ooo | ADV | _ | 25 thin | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 ooo | punct |
| 29 | oo | oo | ADV | _ | 25 thin | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 oo | punct |
| 31 | oo | oo | ADV | _ | 25 thin | advmod |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 opens | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | Daddy | a little hole | at the end of the round egg | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme at end=Location | |||
| 2 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | Daddy not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run out in a quote | present | the O noise | thin property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:22.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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