Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 17
Once a day and once a night I return.
Who acts: I · What happens: return
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 (I), 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 | Once | once | ADV | _ | 9 return | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 night | cc |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Once | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | I | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
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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): R5-strong ×3. 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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