Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 9
She reads it sign by sign: «Shu-ya.
Who acts: Daddy, sign · What happens: read, sign · To what, where: word
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, sign), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reads | nsubj |
| 2 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reads | obj |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reads | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 sign | case |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 ya | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 Shu | punct |
| 9 | Shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ya | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Shu | punct |
| 11 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reads | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | Daddy | word | sign by sign obl:unmarked; Shu ya obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | sign | sign | nom sign «communication transitive»: by=agent |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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