Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 19

Other signs: the snake turned the other way round for Z, «a twiddle for E» (it came into the pictures so often that it got smaller and smaller), the sacred Beaver for B, noses for N, the big lake-pike's mouth for G, the pike's mouth with a spear behind it for K, and the winding Wagai river for W.

Who acts: snake · What happens: turn, come, get · To what, where: other way, pictures

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 (snake), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signs	amod
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turned	dislocated
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obj
10	round	round	ADV	_	12 Z	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 Z	case
12	Z	z	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 twiddle	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 twiddle	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 twiddle	det
16	twiddle	twiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 E	case
18	E	e	X	_	16 twiddle	flat
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 twiddle	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	parataxis
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 pictures	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pictures	det
25	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 often	advmod
27	often	often	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 got	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 often	advcl
31	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 got	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 smaller	cc
33	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 smaller	conj
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Beaver	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Beaver	det
37	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Beaver	amod
38	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 B	case
40	B	B	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Beaver	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 noses	punct
42	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 Beaver	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 N	case
44	N	N	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 noses	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 mouth	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 pike	det
47	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 pike	amod
48	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 pike	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 lake	punct
50	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 mouth	nmod:poss
51	's	's	PART	_	50 pike	case
52	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 G	case
54	G	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 mouth	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 mouth	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 pike	det
57	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 mouth	nmod:poss
58	's	's	PART	_	57 pike	case
59	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
60	with	with	ADP	_	62 spear	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 spear	det
62	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 mouth	nmod
63	behind	behind	ADP	_	64 it	case
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 spear	nmod
65	for	for	ADP	_	66 K	case
66	K	K	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 river	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 river	cc
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 river	det
70	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 river	compound
71	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 river	compound
72	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
73	for	for	ADP	_	74 W.	case
74	W.	W.	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 river	nmod

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the snake	the other way		for Z; for K; Other signs dislocated; a twiddle obl; the sacred Beaver for B and noses for N obl; the big lake pike's mouth for G obl; the pike's mouth with a spear behind spear obl; the winding Wagai river for W. obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	come	past	snake		the pictures	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into picture=Initial_Location
3	get	past	snake			small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:19.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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