Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 28

Real life: with a small set of sound-signs you can write ANY word, even words for things you cannot draw, like «ending» or «come».

Who acts: you · What happens: write, not draw, come · To what, where: word, things

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 (you), 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	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 write	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 set	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 set	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 set	amod
7	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 write	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 signs	case
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signs	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sound	punct
11	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 set	nmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 write	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 write	aux
14	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	parataxis
15	ANY	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 write	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 words	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 words	advmod
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 word	appos
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 things	case
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 words	nmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 draw	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 draw	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 draw	advmod
25	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 things	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ending	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 ending	case
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 ending	punct
29	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 write	obl
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 ending	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ending	conj
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	can	you	any word	with a small set of sound signs; like ending	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	not draw	can	you	things not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	come in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «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:28.

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 ×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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