Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 23

Real life: the dark patches on the Moon are wide plains of old cooled lava; people in different lands see a man, a rabbit or a woman in them.

Who acts: dark patches, people · What happens: be, cool, see · To what, where: wide plains, man

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 (dark patches, people), 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	6 patches	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 patches	amod
6	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plains	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
9	Moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patches	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 plains	cop
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plains	amod
12	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 life	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 lava	case
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lava	amod
15	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lava	amod
16	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plains	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 lands	case
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lands	amod
21	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 people	nmod
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 plains	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rabbit	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rabbit	det
27	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 woman	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 woman	det
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 woman	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the dark patches on the Moon	wide plains	of old cooled lava	tree rules
2	cool	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	present	people in different lands	a man and a rabbit or a woman in patch		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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:23.

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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