Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 31
Talk in this lesson: «mid» = only so-so, not good; «gurt» (West Country) = great, big; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey, wet, gloomy weather.
Who acts: you · What happens: talk, gurt, = · To what, where: lesson
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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 mid | punct |
| 7 | mid | mid | X | _ | 4 lesson | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 mid | punct |
| 9 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 so | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 so | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mid | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gurt | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 gurt | punct |
| 19 | gurt | gurt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | conj |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 gurt | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 Country | punct |
| 22 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Country | compound |
| 23 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gurt | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Country | punct |
| 25 | = | = | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 gurt | advcl |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 = | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 big | punct |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 great | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 dreich | punct |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 dreich | punct |
| 31 | dreich | dreich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | conj |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 dreich | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 Scotland | punct |
| 34 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dreich | appos |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 Scotland | punct |
| 36 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 42 weather | punct |
| 37 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 weather | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wet | punct |
| 39 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 weather | amod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wet | punct |
| 41 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 weather | amod |
| 42 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dreich | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gurt in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | = | present | you not said here | great property | tree rules |
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:31.
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 ×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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