Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 16
Taffy asks for «a little bit of stick or something between each word, so's they won't rub up against each other and jostle»; Daddy says he will leave a space.
Who acts: Taffy, words, Daddy · What happens: ask, not be, jostle, say, leave · To what, where: », space · 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 (Taffy, words, Daddy), 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 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bit | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stick | case |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 something | cc |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 bit | conj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 word | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 something | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rub | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 rub | advmod |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rub | cop |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rub | nsubj |
| 19 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 rub | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 rub | advmod |
| 21 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 rub | compound:prt |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 21 rub | obl |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 jostle | cc |
| 27 | jostle | jostle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rub | conj |
| 28 | » | » | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 jostle | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 says | punct |
| 30 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 says | nsubj |
| 31 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 leave | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 leave | aux |
| 34 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 says | ccomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 space | det |
| 36 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leave | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Taffy | for a little bit of stick | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | words = word | against each; rub property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jostle in a quote | infinitive | words = word not said here | » | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Daddy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave | future | Daddy | a space | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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:16.
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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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