Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 4

In the North the Elephant's diggings become the Himalayas; in the East the Cow's eaten patch and her sitting-place become the Indian Desert and the Sahara; in the West the Beaver's dam becomes the Everglades; in the South the Turtle's flung sand becomes the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Who acts: diggings, eaten patch, dam, flung sand, Elephant · What happens: become, eat, fling, dig · To what, where: North, West, islands, South

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 (diggings, eaten patch, dam, flung sand), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 North	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 North	det
3	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 become	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Elephant	det
5	Elephant	elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 diggings	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Elephant	case
7	diggings	digging	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	nsubj
8	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Himalayas	det
10	Himalayas	himalaya	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 become	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 East	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 East	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 East	det
14	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Himalayas	appos
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Cow	det
16	Cow	cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 patch	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Cow	case
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 patch	amod
19	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 become	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 place	cc
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 place	nmod:poss
22	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 place	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 patch	conj
25	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 become	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Desert	det
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Desert	amod
28	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 become	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Sahara	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sahara	det
31	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Desert	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 becomes	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 West	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 West	det
35	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 becomes	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Beaver	det
37	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 dam	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 Beaver	case
39	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 becomes	nsubj
40	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 become	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Everglades	det
42	Everglades	everglade	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 becomes	xcomp
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 South	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 South	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 South	det
46	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 becomes	obl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Turtle	det
48	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 sand	nmod:poss
49	's	's	PART	_	48 Turtle	case
50	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 sand	amod
51	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 becomes	nsubj
52	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 becomes	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 islands	det
54	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 becomes	xcomp
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 Malaysia	case
56	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 islands	nmod
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 Indonesia	cc
58	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Malaysia	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	present	the Elephant's diggings		in the North result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in north=Result
2	eat	participle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	present	the Cow's eaten patch and Elephant's sitting place			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	become	present	the Beaver's dam		in the West result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in west=Result
5	fling	participle				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	become	present	the Turtle's flung sand	the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia	in the South result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in south=Result
7	dig		the Elephant			nom digging «act transitive»: 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:4.

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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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