Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 8
They turn the snake round for Z, make a twiddle for E, beavers for B, noses for N, a pike's mouth for G and K, and the winding river for W, and there is the Alphabet, all complete.
Who acts: hands, Alphabet · What happens: turn, make, be · To what, where: snake, twiddle
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 (hands, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turn | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turn | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Z | case |
| 7 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turn | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 turn | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 twiddle | det |
| 11 | twiddle | twiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 E | case |
| 13 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 twiddle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beavers | punct |
| 15 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 twiddle | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 B | case |
| 17 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 beavers | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 noses | punct |
| 19 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 twiddle | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 N | case |
| 21 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 noses | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mouth | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pike | det |
| 24 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 pike | case |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 N | appos |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 G | case |
| 28 | G | G | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mouth | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 K | cc |
| 30 | K | K | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 G | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 river | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 river | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 river | det |
| 34 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 river | compound |
| 35 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twiddle | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 W | case |
| 37 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 river | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 is | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 is | cc |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 is | expl |
| 41 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 turn | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Alphabet | det |
| 43 | Alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 is | nsubj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 complete | punct |
| 45 | all | all | ADV | _ | 46 complete | advmod |
| 46 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Alphabet | amod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | hands = hand | the snake | for Z; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme snake=Result | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | hands = hand not said here | a twiddle and beavers for B and noses for N and the winding river for W | for E | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent twiddle=Product for e=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | be | present | the Alphabet | there | vn exist-47.1 «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:8.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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