Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 9
Next night the Woman dries sweet grass, plaits a halter and makes the Second Singing Magic.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: dry, plait, make · To what, where: sweet grass, halter, Second Singing Magic
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 (Woman), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 night | amod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dries | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woman | det |
| 4 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dries | nsubj |
| 5 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grass | amod |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dries | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 plaits | punct |
| 9 | plaits | plait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dries | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 halter | det |
| 11 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plaits | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 makes | cc |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dries | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Magic | det |
| 15 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 Magic | amod |
| 16 | Singing | sing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Magic | compound |
| 17 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dries | 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 | dry | present | the Woman | sweet grass | night | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient grass=Result | |||
| 2 | plait | present | the Woman not said here | a halter | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | the Woman not said here | the Second Singing Magic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset magic=Product |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.
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