--- title: Jaguar sits on the bank sucking prickles from his paws and saying hi… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: Jaguar sits on the bank sucking prickles from his paws and saying his rhyme; Hedgehog says he will not forget it «this month of Sundays», which means for a very long time. Who acts: Jaguar, Hedgehog. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jaguar, Hedgehog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:12 # text = Jaguar sits on the bank sucking prickles from his paws and saying his rhyme; Hedgehog says he will not forget it «this month of Sundays», which means for a very long time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Jaguar Jaguar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 sucking suck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 7 prickles prickle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Hedgehog Hedgehog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj:outer 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 Sundays Sunday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | Jaguar | | | the bank | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | | 2 | **suck** | gerund | Jaguar *not said here* | prickles | | Jaguar's paws | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prickle=Theme from paw=Source | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jaguar *not said here* | Jaguar's rhyme | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Hedgehog | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **forget** | future | Jaguar | rhyme | | | month | | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | time | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **rhyme** | | Jaguar | | | | | | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:12`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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