Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 27

Real life: Kipling's own daughter Josephine, the first «Best Beloved» for whom he told these stories, died of an illness in 1899 when she was six, three years before the book came out; many readers hear his sadness in the closing poem.

Who acts: Josephine, Real life, Kipling, book, many readers · What happens: tell, die, be, come out, hear · To what, where: stories, six, three years, sadness, closing poem · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Josephine, Real life, Kipling, book), 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	23 died	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Josephine	punct
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kipling	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Josephine	nmod:desc
8	Josephine	Josephine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 life	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 «	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 «	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 «	amod
12	«	«	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Josephine	appos
13	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 «	parataxis
14	Beloved	beloved	ADV	Typo=Yes	13 Best	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 Beloved	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 whom	case
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 told	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Beloved	acl:relcl
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 stories	det
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 told	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 illness	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 illness	det
26	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 1899	case
28	1899	1899	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 died	obl
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 six	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 six	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 six	cop
32	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 died	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 years	punct
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 six	nmod:unmarked
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 book	det
38	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 years	acl:relcl
40	out	out	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 hear	punct
42	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 readers	amod
43	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hear	nsubj
44	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 died	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 sadness	nmod:poss
46	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hear	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	50 poem	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 poem	det
49	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 poem	compound
50	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hear	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Josephine	this stories				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	die	past	Real life Josephine Kipling's own daughter				of a illness; in 1899	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1899=Attribute
3	is a	past	Kipling	six		year		tree rules
4	come out	past	the book	three years not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient year=Result
5	hear	present	many readers	book's sadness	the closing poem			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sadness=Stimulus

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:27.

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 ×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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