Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 33
Talk in this lesson: «cap» = a lie; «salty» = cross; «I'm dead» = that's so funny.
Who acts: you, Suleiman, that · What happens: talk, be · To what, where: lesson · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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, Suleiman, that), 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 | cap | cap | X | _ | 6 « | flat |
| 8 | » | » | X | _ | 6 « | flat |
| 9 | = | = | SYM | _ | 11 lie | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lie | det |
| 11 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 « | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 » | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 salty | punct |
| 14 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 « | flat |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 salty | punct |
| 16 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 17 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 « | flat |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 » | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 dead | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dead | cop |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 dead | punct |
| 24 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 28 funny | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 funny | nsubj |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 funny | cop |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 funny | advmod |
| 28 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | 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 | this lesson | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Suleiman | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | funny property | tree rules |
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:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:33.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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