--- title: His home had called him «sorrowfully, reproachfully, but with no bit… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: His home had called him «sorrowfully, reproachfully, but with no bitterness or anger; only with plaintive reminder that it was there, and wanted him». (Plaintive = sad-sounding.) Who acts: home, Plaintive. 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(Plaintive = sad-sounding.) **Who acts:** home, Plaintive · **What happens:** call, be, want, sound · **To what, where:** road, plaintive reminder · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home)» 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 (home, Plaintive), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:25 # text = His home had called him «sorrowfully, reproachfully, but with no bitterness or anger; only with plaintive reminder that it was there, and wanted him». (Plaintive = sad-sounding.) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 7 sorrowfully sorrowfully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 reproachfully reproachfully ADV RB _ 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 bitterness bitterness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 plaintive plaintive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 reminder reminder NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 33 Plaintive plaintive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 nsubj _ _ 34 = = PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 sounding sound VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | road's home | | road | | | with no bitterness or anger and plaintive reminder; sorrowfully *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | home | plaintive reminder *not said here* | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | past | road's home *not said here* | road | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | | 4 | **sound** | gerund | Plaintive | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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