Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 22
Pau Amma is a King Crab, so big that «One side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other touched the beach at Pahang», and he was taller than the smoke of three volcanoes.
Who acts: Pau, One side, other, three volcanoes · What happens: be, touch, smoke · To what, where: King Crab, beach, Sarawak, Pahang
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, One side, other, three volcanoes), 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 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Crab | nsubj |
| 2 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pau | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Crab | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Crab | det |
| 5 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Crab | compound |
| 6 | Crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 big | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 big | advmod |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Crab | amod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 touched | mark |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 touched | punct |
| 12 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 side | nummod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 touched | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shell | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shell | nmod:poss |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shell | amod |
| 17 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 18 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 big | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beach | det |
| 20 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 touched | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 Sarawak | case |
| 22 | Sarawak | Sarawak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 beach | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 other | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 touched | nsubj |
| 26 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 touched | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beach | det |
| 28 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 touched | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 Pahang | case |
| 30 | Pahang | Pahang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 beach | nmod |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 touched | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 taller | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 taller | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 taller | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 taller | cop |
| 36 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 Crab | conj |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 smoke | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 smoke | det |
| 39 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taller | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 volcanoes | case |
| 41 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 volcanoes | nummod |
| 42 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 smoke | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Crab | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pau | a King Crab | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch in a quote | past | One side of Pau's great shell | the beach | Sarawak | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | touch in a quote | past | the other | the beach | Pahang | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | Pau | than the smoke of three volcanoes; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | smoke | three volcanoes | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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:22.
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): R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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