Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 37

The book also holds words and ideas of 1902 about some peoples of the world that are hurtful and wrong today; we read it as an old book and say so plainly.

Who acts: book, peoples, we · What happens: hold, be, read, say · To what, where: words, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 (book, peoples, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 holds	advmod
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 holds	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ideas	cc
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 words	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 1902	case
9	1902	1902	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 words	nmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 peoples	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 peoples	det
12	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 words	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 peoples	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hurtful	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hurtful	cop
18	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 peoples	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wrong	cc
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hurtful	conj
21	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hurtful	obl:unmarked
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 read	punct
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 read	nsubj
24	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 holds	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 read	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 book	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 book	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 book	amod
29	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 read	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 say	cc
31	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 read	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 plainly	advmod
33	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	31 say	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the book	words of 1902 and ideas		about some peoples of the world	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent word=Theme about people=Location
2	is	present	some peoples of the world		today	hurtful property	tree rules
3	be		some peoples of the world not said here				tree rules
4	read	past	we	word		as a old book	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as book=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	present	we not said here			plainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.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 ×1, 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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