Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 7

The T is a family group, Tegumai holding hands with Taffy and Teshumai, drawn so often that it becomes a thin line with arms out.

Who acts: T, family group · What happens: be, hold, draw, become · To what, where: family group, hands, Taffy, thin line

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 (T, family group), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 T	det
2	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 group	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 group	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 group	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 group	compound
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Tegumai	punct
8	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 group	appos
9	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 group	acl
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holding	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Taffy	case
12	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Teshumai	cc
14	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Taffy	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawn	punct
16	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 Taffy	acl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 often	advmod
18	often	often	ADV	_	16 drawn	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 becomes	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 becomes	nsubj
21	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 drawn	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 line	det
23	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 line	amod
24	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 becomes	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 arms	case
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 line	nmod
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 arms	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 group	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the T	a family group		tree rules
2	hold	gerund	a family group not said here	hands	with Taffy and Teshumai	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	draw	participle		Taffy and Teshumai not said here	often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	become	present	T	a thin line with arms		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:7.

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. 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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