Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 5
So they make a new sign for the sh-sound: a picture of the drying-poles themselves.
Who acts: so · What happens: make · To what, where: new sign
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 (so), 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 make | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sign | amod |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sound | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 9 | sh | sh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sh | punct |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 picture | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 picture | det |
| 14 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 poles | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 poles | det |
| 17 | drying | drying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 poles | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 drying | punct |
| 19 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 picture | nmod |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 poles | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | so | a new sign | for the sh sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sign=Product for sound=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:5.
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): 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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