Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 8
The Magician asks all the animals, who say «not us»; he asks the old Fisherman in the Moon, who spins a line to catch the world, and the Rat in the Moon, who bites the line.
Who acts: Magician, animals, animal, old Fisherman, Rat · What happens: ask, say, spin, catch, bite · To what, where: animals, old Fisherman, Moon, line, world · 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 (Magician, animals, animal, old Fisherman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 animals | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 animals | acl:relcl |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 us | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 us | advmod |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | ccomp |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 us | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 asks | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asks | nsubj |
| 16 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asks | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fisherman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Fisherman | amod |
| 19 | Fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Moon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Moon | det |
| 22 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spins | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 spins | nsubj |
| 25 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 line | det |
| 27 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spins | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 catch | mark |
| 29 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 spins | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 catch | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Rat | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Rat | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Rat | det |
| 35 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fisherman | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Moon | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Moon | det |
| 38 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Rat | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bites | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 bites | nsubj |
| 41 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Rat | acl:relcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 line | det |
| 43 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bites | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | 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 | ask speech: ask | present | the Magician | all animals | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | all animals | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | animal | the old Fisherman and the Rat in the Moon | the Moon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient | |||
| 4 | spin | present | the old Fisherman and the Rat in the Moon | a line | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | the old Fisherman and the Rat in the Moon not said here | the world | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bite | present | the Rat in the Moon | the line | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
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.
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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. 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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