Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 26
Real life: using pictures for their SOUNDS, not their meaning, is called the rebus idea; a picture of an eye and a saw can spell «I saw».
Who acts: Real life, picture, I, shu · What happens: use, call, spell, see, mean · To what, where: pictures, Real life · 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 (Real life, picture, I, shu), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 using | punct |
| 4 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 life | acl:relcl |
| 5 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 using | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 SOUNDS | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 SOUNDS | nmod:poss |
| 8 | SOUNDS | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 using | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 meaning | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 meaning | advmod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 12 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 SOUNDS | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 using | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 idea | det |
| 17 | rebus | rebus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 idea | compound |
| 18 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 picture | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 picture | det |
| 21 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spell | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 eye | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 eye | det |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 picture | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 saw | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 saw | det |
| 27 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eye | conj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 spell | aux |
| 29 | spell | spell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 called | conj |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 spell | obj |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | Real life not said here | pictures | for shu's SOUNDS and shu's meaning | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent picture=Theme for sound=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Real life | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | spell | can | a picture of a eye and a saw | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | mean | shu | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:26.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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