Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 22

Real life: the Everglades in Florida are a very wide, slow «river of grass» over flat land, made by rain and water flowing south, not by a beaver; there are no beavers in the Everglades.

Who acts: Everglades, water, beavers · What happens: be, make, flow · To what, where: wide slow river, flat land

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 (Everglades, water, beavers), 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 Everglades	det
5	Everglades	Everglades	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 river	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Florida	case
7	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Everglades	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 river	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 wide	advmod
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 river	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wide	punct
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 river	amod
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 river	punct
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 life	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 grass	case
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 river	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 grass	punct
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 land	amod
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 river	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 river	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 rain	case
25	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 water	cc
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rain	conj
28	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 water	acl
29	south	south	ADV	_	28 flowing	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beaver	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 beaver	advmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 beaver	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 beaver	det
34	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 are	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 are	expl
37	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 made	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 beavers	det
39	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 are	nsubj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 Everglades	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Everglades	det
42	Everglades	everglade	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 beavers	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Everglades in Florida	a wide slow river	flat land	of grass	tree rules
2	make	participle		a wide slow river not said here		by rain and water; by a beaver	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	flow	gerund	water not said here			south property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	does	present	no beavers in the Everglades		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:22.

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. 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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