Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 13

Pau Amma the Crab, «next in the game», says «I will play my play alone in the deep waters, and I will never be obedient to this son of Adam.»

Who acts: Pau, my · What happens: say, play, not be · To what, where: play, deep waters · 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: who acts (Pau, my), 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	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	flat
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Crab	det
4	Crab	crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 game	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 next	punct
7	next	next	ADV	_	10 game	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 game	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 game	det
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 game	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pau	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 play	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 play	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 play	aux
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 play	nmod:poss
19	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	obj
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 play	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 waters	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 waters	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 waters	amod
24	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 play	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 obedient	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 obedient	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 obedient	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 obedient	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 obedient	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 obedient	cop
31	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 says	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 son	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 son	det
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 obedient	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Adam	case
36	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 obedient	punct
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Pau				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play in a quote	future	Pau	my play	the deep waters	alone property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
3	not is in a quote	future	Pau			to this son of Adam; obedient property	tree rules
4	play in a quote		my				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:13.

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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