Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 14

«Mum shuts one's mouth up», so a shut mouth is the m-sign (16.); with the open carp-mouth after it, it makes «ma».

Who acts: Mum, shut mouth, sign · What happens: shut up, be, make · To what, where: mouth, m sign, ma · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mum, shut mouth, 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 shuts	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shuts	nsubj
3	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 makes	parataxis
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shuts	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	3 shuts	compound:prt
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 shuts	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sign	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	18 sign	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mouth	det
12	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mouth	amod
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sign	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sign	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sign	det
16	m	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sign	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 m	punct
18	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 makes	conj
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 16	punct
20	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 sign	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 16	punct
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 16	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 mouth	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mouth	det
26	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mouth	amod
27	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mouth	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 carp	punct
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 makes	obl
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mouth	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shuts	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 makes	nsubj
34	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 ma	punct
36	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 makes	obj
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 ma	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shuts	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	present	Mum	one's mouth		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
2	is a	present	a shut mouth	the m sign		tree rules
3	make	present	sign	ma	with the open carp mouth after sign	tree rules

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:14.

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 ×2, 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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