Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 37
Talk in this lesson: «rizz» = charm, the power to win people over; «aye» (Scotland, North England) = yes; «proper job» (Cornwall) = well done; «just now» (South Africa) = in a while, later.
Who acts: you · What happens: talk, win over, do · To what, where: aye, lesson, people
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 (you), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 4 lesson | appos |
| 7 | rizz | rizz | X | _ | 6 « | goeswith |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 rizz | punct |
| 9 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 « | goeswith |
| 10 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 « | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 power | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 power | det |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 charm | appos |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 win | mark |
| 15 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 power | acl |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 win | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 win | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 aye | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 aye | punct |
| 20 | aye | aye | X | _ | 1 Talk | obl |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 aye | punct |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 Scotland | punct |
| 23 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 » | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 England | punct |
| 25 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 England | compound |
| 26 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Scotland | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Scotland | punct |
| 28 | = | = | SYM | _ | 20 aye | punct |
| 29 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 20 aye | discourse |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 » | punct |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 » | punct |
| 32 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 job | amod |
| 33 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 » | compound |
| 34 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 aye | conj |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Cornwall | punct |
| 36 | Cornwall | cornwall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 » | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Cornwall | punct |
| 38 | = | = | SYM | _ | 40 done | punct |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 done | advmod |
| 40 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 aye | parataxis |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 later | punct |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 44 now | punct |
| 43 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 now | advmod |
| 44 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 later | advmod |
| 45 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 44 now | punct |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 Africa | punct |
| 47 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Africa | compound |
| 48 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 » | appos |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 Africa | punct |
| 50 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 53 while | punct |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 while | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 while | det |
| 53 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 » | appos |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 » | punct |
| 55 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Talk | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | aye and job » | this lesson | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | win over | to-infinitive | you not said here | people | over property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | participle | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:37.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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