--- title: «Ya-las», water is ending, is chalked on the big stone water-tank; T… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: «Ya-las», water is ending, is chalked on the big stone water-tank; Taffy fills it from the spring with a bark bucket, then pulls Daddy's left ear, «the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good». Who acts: water, Taffy, one. 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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 (water, Taffy, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:17 # text = «Ya-las», water is ending, is chalked on the big stone water-tank; Taffy fills it from the spring with a bark bucket, then pulls Daddy's left ear, «the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Ya Ya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 dislocated _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 chalked chalk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 16 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 48 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 51 advmod _ _ 49 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 51 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 advcl _ _ 52 » » PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **end** | present · progressive | water | | | | | las *dislocated* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **chalk** | present · passive | water *not said here* | | | the big stone water tank | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on tank=Destination | | 3 | **fill** | present | Taffy | water | | | spring | with a bark bucket | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bucket=Instrument | | 4 | **pull** | present | Taffy *not said here* | Daddy's left ear | | | then | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 5 | **belong** *in a quote* | past | the one | | Taffy | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pull** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the one *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Taffy | | | | | good *property* | 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](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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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