Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 6

Daddy jokes with «shi», the word for spear, and draws it as one straight line: «Even Mummy couldn't mistake that for me being killed.» Taffy asks him not to tease.

Who acts: Daddy, «, Taffy · What happens: joke, draw, not mistake, kill, ask, not tease · To what, where: shi, spear, that, Daddy, Mummy · 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, «, Taffy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

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