Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 10
«Shu-ya-las, ya maru» means «Sky-water ending.
Who acts: Shu ya las · What happens: mean · To what, where: water ending
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» 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 ya las), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 las | punct |
| 2 | Shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 las | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shu | punct |
| 4 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 las | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 las | punct |
| 6 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 means | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 las | punct |
| 8 | ya | ya | X | _ | 6 las | appos |
| 9 | maru | maru | X | _ | 8 ya | flat |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 las | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 ending | punct |
| 13 | Sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sky | punct |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ending | compound |
| 16 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Shu ya las | water ending | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Topic |
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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:10.
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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