Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 34
Real life: a spindle whorl is a small weight of clay or stone on a stick, used for spinning thread for thousands of years; the spinning-wheel, which Kipling also mentions, was invented much later, about a thousand years ago.
Who acts: spindle whorl, Kipling · What happens: be, use, spin, mention, invent · To what, where: small weight, stick, thread, spinning wheel
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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 (spindle whorl, Kipling), 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 | _ | 10 weight | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 whorl | det |
| 5 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whorl | compound |
| 6 | whorl | whorl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weight | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weight | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 weight | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weight | amod |
| 10 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 life | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 clay | case |
| 12 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weight | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 stone | cc |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clay | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 stick | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stick | det |
| 17 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weight | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 weight | acl |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 spinning | mark |
| 21 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 used | advcl |
| 22 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spinning | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 thousands | case |
| 24 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 used | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thousands | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 wheel | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wheel | det |
| 29 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wheel | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 wheel | punct |
| 31 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Kipling | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 mentions | obj |
| 34 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 mentions | nsubj |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 36 mentions | advmod |
| 36 | mentions | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 wheel | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wheel | punct |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 invented | aux:pass |
| 39 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 weight | parataxis |
| 40 | much | much | ADV | _ | 41 later | advmod |
| 41 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 invented | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 ago | punct |
| 43 | about | about | ADV | _ | 45 thousand | advmod |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 thousand | det |
| 45 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 years | nummod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 39 invented | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | 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 | is a | present | a spindle whorl | a small weight | a stick | of clay or stone | tree rules | ||
| 2 | use | participle | a small weight not said here | for thousands of years | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | thread | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | present | Kipling | the spinning wheel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 5 | invent | past · passive | the spinning wheel | ago, late property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:34.
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 ×4, 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.
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