Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 22
The narrator is who tells the story, and it can be an animal or an object as well as a person.
Who acts: narrator · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: story, animal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english 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 (narrator), 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 narrator | det |
| 2 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 who | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 who | cop |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 who | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 animal | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 animal | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 animal | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 animal | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 animal | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 animal | det |
| 14 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 who | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 object | cc |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 object | det |
| 17 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 animal | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 22 person | cc |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 person | det |
| 22 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 animal | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 who | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- 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 | the narrator | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a | can | narrator | a animal or a object as a person | 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:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:22.
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): no change. 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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