Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 27

Real life: reading marks on shoulder blades to tell the future was a real old custom in many lands; in ancient China such «oracle bones» carry some of the oldest Chinese writing.

Who acts: reading, such oracle bones · What happens: read, tell, be, carry · To what, where: marks, shoulder blades, future, real old custom, many lands, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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 (reading, such oracle bones), 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	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 custom	punct
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 custom	csubj
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reading	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 blades	case
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blades	compound
8	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reading	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reading	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 future	det
12	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 custom	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 custom	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 custom	amod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 custom	amod
17	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 life	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 lands	case
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lands	amod
20	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 custom	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 bones	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 China	case
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 China	amod
24	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bones	amod
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 bones	punct
27	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bones	compound
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carry	nsubj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 bones	punct
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	parataxis
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 carry	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 writing	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 writing	det
34	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 writing	amod
35	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 writing	amod
36	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 some	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	gerund		marks	shoulder blades	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the future		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent future=Recipient
3	is a	past	reading	a real old custom	many lands	tree rules
4	carry	infinitive	such oracle bones	some	ancient China	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent some=Value in china=Location

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:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.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): 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.

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