Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 15
The Magician breathes on the animals' work: Elephant, North, the Himalayan Mountains; Cow, East, the Indian Desert and the Desert of Sahara; Beaver, West, the Everglades in Florida; Turtle, South, Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java and the Malay Archipelago.
Who acts: Magician, animals · What happens: breathe, work · To what, where: Elephant, work
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 (Magician, animals), 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 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breathes | nsubj |
| 3 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 work | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 work | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 animals | case |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breathes | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Elephant | punct |
| 10 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breathes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 North | punct |
| 12 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 breathes | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mountains | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mountains | det |
| 15 | Himalayan | Himalayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mountains | compound |
| 16 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Elephant | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cow | punct |
| 18 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breathes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 East | punct |
| 20 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cow | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Desert | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Desert | det |
| 23 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Desert | amod |
| 24 | Desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 East | appos |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Desert | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Desert | det |
| 27 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Desert | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Sahara | case |
| 29 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Desert | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Beaver | punct |
| 31 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 West | punct |
| 33 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Everglades | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Everglades | det |
| 36 | Everglades | Everglades | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 Sahara | list |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Florida | case |
| 38 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Everglades | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 Turtle | punct |
| 40 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 South | punct |
| 42 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Borneo | punct |
| 44 | Borneo | Borneo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Celebes | punct |
| 46 | Celebes | Celebes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Sumatra | punct |
| 48 | Sumatra | Sumatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Java | punct |
| 50 | Java | Java | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sahara | appos |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 Archipelago | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Archipelago | det |
| 53 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Archipelago | compound |
| 54 | Archipelago | Archipelago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Java | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breathes | 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 | breathe | present | the Magician | Elephant and the Himalayan Mountains | the animals's work | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent north=Theme on work=Destination | |||
| 2 | work | the animals | nom work «act 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:15.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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