Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 5
But the Man says the Sea is not obedient: once a day and once a night it rushes up the Perak river and floods his house, then runs out again and leaves only mud.
Who acts: Man, Sea · What happens: say, not be, rush up, flood, run out, leave · To what, where: Perak river, house, mud · 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 (Man, Sea), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 says | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Man | det |
| 3 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sea | det |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 obedient | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 obedient | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 obedient | advmod |
| 9 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 rushes | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 once | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 once | cc |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 once | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 once | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rushes | nsubj |
| 19 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rushes | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 22 | Perak | Perak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 river | compound |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushes | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 floods | cc |
| 25 | floods | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rushes | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 floods | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 runs | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 runs | advmod |
| 30 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rushes | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 runs | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 runs | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 leaves | cc |
| 34 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 runs | conj |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 mud | advmod |
| 36 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leaves | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | the Sea | obedient property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rush up | present | Sea | the Perak river | once property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location river=Theme | |||
| 4 | flood | present | Sea not said here | Man's house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 5 | run out | present | Sea not said here | then; again | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | leave | present | Sea not said here | mud | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=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:5.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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