Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 21
Real life: the alphabet was not made in one day by one family; it grew over about 2,000 years.
Who acts: one family, Alphabet · What happens: not make, grow · To what, where: alphabet
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 (one family, Alphabet), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 alphabet | det |
| 5 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 made | advmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 life | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 family | nummod |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 2,000 | advmod |
| 20 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | 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 | not make | past · passive | one family | the alphabet | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Alphabet | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:21.
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): 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.
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