Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 2
Her broken-spear drawing becomes the sign for la.
Who acts: spear drawing, Her · What happens: break, become, draw · To what, where: sign
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 (spear drawing, Her), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 drawing | nmod:poss |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spear | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 broken | punct |
| 4 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawing | compound |
| 5 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 becomes | nsubj |
| 6 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sign | det |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 becomes | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 la. | case |
| 10 | la. | La. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sign | nmod |
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 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | become | present | Her spear drawing | the sign | for la. | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient sign=Result | |||
| 3 | draw | Her = she | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:2.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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