Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 7
For «shu», sky, they need a thin oo-sound, so Daddy draws the round egg with a little hole at the end, where the sound runs out thin.
Who acts: shu, Daddy, sound · What happens: need, draw, run out · To what, where: thin oo sound, round egg
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 (shu, Daddy, sound), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 shu | case |
| 2 | « | « | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shu | det |
| 3 | shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obl |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 shu | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sky | punct |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shu | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shu | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 need | nsubj |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 11 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sound | amod |
| 12 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sound | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 oo | punct |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 draws | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 draws | advmod |
| 17 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 draws | nsubj |
| 18 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 need | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 egg | det |
| 20 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 egg | amod |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 draws | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hole | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hole | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hole | amod |
| 25 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 egg | nmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hole | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thin | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 runs | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sound | det |
| 32 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 runs | nsubj |
| 33 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hole | acl:relcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 runs | compound:prt |
| 35 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 runs | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | shu | a thin oo sound | for « shu and sky | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sound=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | present | Daddy | the round egg | with a little hole at the end | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | |||
| 3 | run out | present | the sound | thin property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:7.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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