Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 169
It is a great invention, and some day men will call it writing.
Who acts: Tewara, men · What happens: be, call · To what, where: great invention, Tewara · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tewara, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:575): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 invention | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 invention | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 invention | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 invention | amod |
| 5 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 call | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 men | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 call | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | aux |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 invention | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 call | obj |
| 14 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tewara | a great invention | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | future | some men | Tewara | day | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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