Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 19
When Pau Amma goes out, the beaches are left bare, little fish die and Raja Moyang Kaban, King of the Elephants, gets muddy legs; when he comes back, islands are drowned, the Man's house floods and Raja Abdullah, King of the Crocodiles, gets a mouthful of salt water.
Who acts: Pau, little fish, Raja, house · What happens: go out, leave, die, get, come back, drown · To what, where: beaches, muddy legs, islands, mouthful
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 (Pau, little fish, Raja, house), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 goes | mark |
| 2 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pau | flat |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | PART | _ | 4 goes | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beaches | det |
| 8 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 left | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 left | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fish | amod |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | nsubj |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gets | cc |
| 17 | Raja | raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gets | nsubj |
| 18 | Moyang | Moyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Raja | flat |
| 19 | Kaban | Kaban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Moyang | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 King | punct |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Raja | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Elephants | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Elephants | det |
| 24 | Elephants | elephant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 King | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gets | punct |
| 26 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 27 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 legs | amod |
| 28 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gets | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 comes | punct |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 comes | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 comes | nsubj |
| 32 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 drowned | advcl |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 comes | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 drowned | punct |
| 35 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 drowned | aux:pass |
| 37 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 gets | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 floods | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Man | det |
| 40 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Man | case |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 floods | nsubj |
| 43 | floods | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 drowned | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 gets | cc |
| 45 | Raja | raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 gets | nsubj |
| 46 | Abdullah | Abdullah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Raja | flat |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 King | punct |
| 48 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Raja | appos |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Crocodiles | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Crocodiles | det |
| 51 | Crocodiles | crocodile | PROPN | Number=Plur | 48 King | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 gets | punct |
| 53 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 gets | conj |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 mouthful | det |
| 55 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 gets | obj |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 water | case |
| 57 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 water | compound |
| 58 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 mouthful | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | Pau | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | the beaches | bare property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | present | little fish | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | get | present | Raja | muddy legs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come back | present | Raja | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | drown | present · passive | islands | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | flood | present | the Man's house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | get | present | Raja | a mouthful of salt water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouthful=Stimulus |
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:19.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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