Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 11

River come to», or «the rain is stopping, come down to the river».

Who acts: River, rain · What happens: come, stop, come down

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 (River, rain), 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	River	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 »	compound:prt
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopping	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 stopping	cc
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 stopping	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rain	det
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopping	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stopping	aux
11	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 down	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	River		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present · progressive	the rain		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	come down	infinitive		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:11.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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