Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 4
Taffy asks for a little space between words so they will not jostle, and she reads the whole message out sound by sound.
Who acts: Taffy, words · What happens: ask, not jostle, read out · To what, where: whole message
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, words), 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 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 space | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 space | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 space | amod |
| 6 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 space | nmod |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 jostle | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 jostle | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 jostle | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 jostle | advmod |
| 13 | jostle | jostle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reads | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reads | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reads | nsubj |
| 17 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 message | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 message | amod |
| 20 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reads | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 reads | compound:prt |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reads | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 sound | case |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reads | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | 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 | ask speech: ask | present | Taffy | for a little space between words | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not jostle | future | words = word | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | read out | present | Taffy | the whole message | by sound | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent message=Recipient sound=Topic |
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:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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