Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 17

«Ya-las», water is ending, is chalked on the big stone water-tank; Taffy fills it from the spring with a bark bucket, then pulls Daddy's left ear, «the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good».

Who acts: water, Taffy, one · What happens: end, chalk, fill, pull, belong, be · To what, where: big stone water tank, water, left ear, Taffy

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 (water, Taffy, one), 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	_	4 las	punct
2	Ya	Ya	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 «	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 las	punct
4	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ending	dislocated
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 las	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ending	punct
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ending	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ending	aux
9	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chalked	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 chalked	aux:pass
12	chalked	chalk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ending	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	19 tank	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tank	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tank	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tank	compound
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tank	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
19	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chalked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fills	punct
21	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fills	nsubj
22	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ending	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fills	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 spring	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spring	det
26	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fills	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 bucket	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bucket	det
29	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bucket	compound
30	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fills	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pulls	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 pulls	advmod
33	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fills	conj
34	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 ear	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Daddy	case
36	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ear	amod
37	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pulls	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ear	appos
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 belonged	nsubj
43	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 one	acl:relcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 belonged	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 pull	mark
47	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 belonged	advcl
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 good	advmod
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 good	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 good	cop
51	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 pull	advcl
52	»	»	PUNCT	_	47 pull	punct
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ending	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present · progressive	water					las dislocated	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	chalk	present · passive	water not said here			the big stone water tank			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on tank=Destination
3	fill	present	Taffy	water			spring	with a bark bucket	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bucket=Instrument
4	pull	present	Taffy not said here	Daddy's left ear			then		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
5	belong in a quote	past	the one		Taffy				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	pull in a quote	to-infinitive	the one not said here						vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is in a quote	past	Taffy					good property	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:17.

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, 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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