Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 18

T: Taffy, Tegumai and Teshumai all begin with that sound, so they drew a family holding hands, which became «a thin long Tegumai with his arms out».

Who acts: Taffy, las, family · What happens: begin, draw, become · To what, where: family

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, las, family), 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	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	dep
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Taffy	punct
3	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 begin	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Tegumai	punct
5	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Taffy	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Teshumai	cc
7	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Taffy	conj
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 begin	advmod
9	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 sound	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 sound	det
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begin	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 drew	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	nsubj
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 family	det
18	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obj
19	holding	holding	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hands	compound
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drew	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 family	acl:relcl
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 Tegumai	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Tegumai	det
26	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Tegumai	amod
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Tegumai	amod
28	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 arms	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arms	nmod:poss
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Tegumai	nmod
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 arms	advmod
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 Tegumai	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 T	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	present	Taffy and Tegumai and Teshumai		with that sound; all property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality
2	draw	past	las = la	a family		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary hand=Result
3	become	past	a family			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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