Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 10
This tale is set «before the High and Far-Off Times», in «the Time of the Very Beginnings», even earlier than the other stories.
What happens: set · To what, where: tale
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 Times | punct |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 Times | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Times | det |
| 8 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Times | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Times | cc |
| 10 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 Times | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Off | punct |
| 12 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 13 Times | case |
| 13 | Times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Times | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Time | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Time | case |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 Time | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Time | det |
| 19 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Beginnings | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Beginnings | det |
| 22 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 23 Beginnings | advmod |
| 23 | Beginnings | beginning | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Time | nmod |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 Time | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 earlier | punct |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 earlier | advmod |
| 27 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 set | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 stories | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stories | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stories | amod |
| 31 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 earlier | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · passive | this tale | time | early property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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:10.
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, R6-punct-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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