The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 3

He is a seafaring rat from Constantinople; his ancestor came there from Norway with King Sigurd's sixty ships, and any harbour feels like home to him.

Who acts: two, ancestor, harbour · What happens: be, come, feel · To what, where: seafaring rat, Constantinople, Norway

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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 (two, ancestor, harbour), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rat	det
4	seafaring	seafaring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rat	amod
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Constantinople	case
7	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rat	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ancestor	nmod:poss
10	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rat	parataxis
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Norway	case
14	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	20 ships	case
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Sigurd	nmod:desc
17	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ships	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Sigurd	case
19	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 ships	nummod
20	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feels	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feels	cc
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 harbour	det
24	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feels	nsubj
25	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feels	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 home	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	two	a seafaring rat	Constantinople		tree rules
2	come	past	two's ancestor		Norway; there	with Sigurd King's sixty ships	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from norway=Initial_Location
3	feel	present	any harbour			like home to two	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like home=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:books:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:3.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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