Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 1
She describes him: round and flat, eyes on stalks, walking sideways, with strong armour on his back.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: describe, walk · To what, where: him
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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 (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 describes | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 round | punct |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 describes | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flat | cc |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 round | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 describes | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stalks | case |
| 11 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 eyes | conj |
| 14 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 armour | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 armour | case |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 armour | amod |
| 18 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 armour | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 describes | 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 | describe | present | daughter | him = he | round property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | daughter not said here | sideways property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, 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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