Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 9
The closing poem is sad and tender: none of the Tribe remain, but each spring Taffy seems to come dancing through the fern on Merrow Down, and far behind comes Tegumai, looking for «the daughter that was all to him».
Who acts: closing poem, none, Taffy, Tegumai · What happens: be, remain, seem, come, dance, look · To what, where: fern
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 (closing poem, none, Taffy, Tegumai), 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 | 3 poem | det |
| 2 | closing | closing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poem | compound |
| 3 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sad | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | cop |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tender | cc |
| 7 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sad | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 none | punct |
| 9 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 remain | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tribe | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tribe | det |
| 12 | Tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 none | nmod |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seems | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 seems | cc |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 spring | det |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seems | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 seems | nsubj |
| 19 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seems | xcomp |
| 22 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 come | xcomp |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 fern | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fern | det |
| 25 | fern | fern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dancing | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Down | case |
| 27 | Merrow | Merrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Down | compound |
| 28 | Down | Down | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 dancing | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 comes | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 comes | cc |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 behind | advmod |
| 32 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 33 comes | advmod |
| 33 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 remain | conj |
| 34 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 comes | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looking | punct |
| 36 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 comes | advcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 daughter | case |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 40 daughter | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 daughter | det |
| 40 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looking | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 all | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 all | cop |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 all | obl |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 daughter | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the closing poem | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the closing poem not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | remain | present | none | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seem | present | Taffy | spring | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | Taffy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | dance | gerund | Taffy not said here | the fern | on Merrow Down | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fern=Location | |||
| 7 | come | present | Tegumai | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | look | gerund | Tegumai not said here | for the daughter | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for daughter=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:9.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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