Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 25
Talk in this lesson: «skibidi» = a silly word kids shout, meaning nothing much; «wicked» (New England, USA) = very.
Who acts: you, kids, silly word · What happens: talk, shout, mean, wick · To what, where: lesson, silly word, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, kids, silly word), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 skibidi | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 skibidi | punct |
| 7 | skibidi | skibidi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lesson | amod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 skibidi | punct |
| 9 | = | = | SYM | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 11 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skibidi | parataxis |
| 13 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shout | nsubj |
| 14 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meaning | punct |
| 16 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 word | acl |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 meaning | obj |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nothing | amod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wicked | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 wicked | punct |
| 21 | wicked | wick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 wicked | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 England | punct |
| 24 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 England | flat |
| 25 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wicked | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 USA | punct |
| 27 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 England | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 England | punct |
| 29 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 wicked | punct |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 wicked | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | kids | a silly word not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | a silly word not said here | nothing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wick in a quote | past | tree rules |
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:25.
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): R6-punct-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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