Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 21

Real life: the Sahara was green, with lakes, hippos and grass, until about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago; it dried because of slow changes in the Earth's tilt and the rains, not because a cow sat there.

Who acts: Sahara, life, cow, Earth · What happens: be, dry, not sit, tilt

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 (Sahara, life, cow, Earth), 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	_	7 green	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sahara	det
5	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 green	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 green	cop
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lakes	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 lakes	case
10	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 green	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hippos	punct
12	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lakes	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grass	cc
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lakes	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ago	punct
16	until	until	ADP	_	22 ago	case
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 5,000	advmod
18	5,000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 6,000	case
20	6,000	6000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 5,000	nmod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ago	obl:unmarked
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 lakes	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dried	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dried	nsubj
25	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ago	conj
26	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	29 changes	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 because	fixed
28	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 changes	amod
29	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dried	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 tilt	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Earth	det
32	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 tilt	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Earth	case
34	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 changes	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 rains	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rains	det
37	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 tilt	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 sat	advmod
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 sat	mark
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cow	det
42	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sat	nsubj
43	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dried	advcl
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 sat	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Sahara		with lakes and hippos and grass; green property	tree rules
2	dry	past	life		because slow changes in the Earth's tilt and the rains	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not sit	past	a cow	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tilt		the Earth			nom tilt «event 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:21.

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): R7-rel-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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