Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 20

Real life: the Himalayas were pushed up because the land of India has been moving north and crashing into Asia for about 50 million years; they are still rising a little every year.

Who acts: land, Himalayas · What happens: push up, move, crash, rise · To what, where: Himalayas, Asia, little

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 (land, Himalayas), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Himalayas	det
5	Himalayas	Himalayas	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 pushed	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pushed	aux:pass
7	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 life	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pushed	compound:prt
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 moving	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moving	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 India	case
13	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 land	nmod
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 moving	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 moving	aux
16	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pushed	advcl
17	north	north	ADV	_	16 moving	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crashing	cc
19	crashing	crash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 moving	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 Asia	case
21	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 crashing	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 years	case
23	about	about	ADV	_	25 million	advmod
24	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 million	compound
25	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crashing	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 rising	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rising	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 rising	aux
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 rising	advmod
31	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 moving	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 little	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rising	obl:unmarked
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 year	det
35	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rising	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	push up	past · passive		the Himalayas			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	move	present · perfect · progressive	the land of India			north property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	crash	gerund	the land of India not said here		year	into Asia result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into asia=Result
4	rise	present · progressive	Himalayas	a little	still; year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:20.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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