Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 11

The animals are called «All-the-Elephant-there-was», «All-the-Cow-there-was» and so on, because there was only one of each at the start.

What happens: call, be · To what, where: animals, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
6	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 called	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Elephant	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 the	punct
10	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 All	flat
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 Elephant	conj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 »	cop
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 All	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 All	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 All	punct
18	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 called	conj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 All	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Cow	det
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 the	punct
22	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 All	nmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 there	punct
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 Cow	acl
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 on	cop
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 on	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 on	advmod
30	on	on	ADV	_	24 there	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 one	punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 was	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 one	cop
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 one	advmod
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 called	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 each	case
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 one	nmod
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 start	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 start	det
41	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 each	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive	the animals		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is	past		on property	tree rules
3	is a	past	one	of each	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, 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:11.

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 ×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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