Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 0
At the Very Beginning the Eldest Magician gets the Earth and the Sea ready and teaches each animal its «play»: the Elephant plays at being an Elephant, the Beaver at being a Beaver, and so on.
Who acts: Eldest Magician, Elephant, Magician · What happens: get, teach, play, be · To what, where: Earth, Beginning, play, animal, Beaver, Elephant
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» 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 (Eldest Magician, Elephant, Magician), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Beginning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Beginning | det |
| 3 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 4 Beginning | advmod |
| 4 | Beginning | begin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Magician | det |
| 6 | Eldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 Magician | amod |
| 7 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Earth | det |
| 10 | Earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Sea | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sea | det |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Earth | conj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gets | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 teaches | cc |
| 16 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gets | conj |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teaches | obj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 play | nmod:poss |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 play | punct |
| 21 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teaches | obj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 play | punct |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 plays | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Elephant | det |
| 25 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plays | nsubj |
| 26 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gets | parataxis |
| 27 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 30 Elephant | mark |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 Elephant | cop |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Elephant | det |
| 30 | Elephant | elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 plays | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Beaver | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Beaver | det |
| 33 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 plays | obj |
| 34 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 37 Beaver | mark |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 Beaver | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 Beaver | det |
| 37 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 plays | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 on | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 on | cc |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 on | advmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 gets | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
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 | get | present | the Eldest Magician | the Earth and the Sea | the Beginning | ready property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent earth=Theme at begin=Asset | ||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | the Eldest Magician not said here | Magician's play | each animal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient play=Topic | |||
| 3 | play | present | the Elephant | the Beaver | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | gerund | the Elephant not said here | a Elephant | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | gerund | a Beaver | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | play in a quote | Magician | nom play «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, 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:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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