A stranger's story, sentence 5
Tricksters use stories that pull at a kind child's heart.
Who acts: Tricksters, stories · What happens: use, pull · To what, where: stories
This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» of the everyday 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 (Tricksters, stories), 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 | Tricksters | trickster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pull | nsubj |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stories | acl:relcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 child | compound |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 child | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | 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 | use | present | Tricksters | stories | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pull | present | stories | at a kind child's heart | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at heart=Theme |
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:everyday:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:5.
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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