Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 26
The gifts: the Magician offers to make every stone, hole and bunch of weed a safe Pusat Tasek; the Man offers a home on land and in the sea; the girl offers her scissors, to eat coconuts, dig holes and climb trees.
Who acts: Magician, Man, girl · What happens: offer, make, eat, dig, climb · To what, where: stone, home, land, scissors, coconuts, holes
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 (Magician, Man, girl), 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 gifts | det |
| 2 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 gifts | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Magician | det |
| 5 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offers | nsubj |
| 6 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gifts | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 offers | xcomp |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hole | punct |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stone | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bunch | cc |
| 14 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stone | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 weed | case |
| 16 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bunch | nmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Tasek | det |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Tasek | amod |
| 19 | Pusat | Pusat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 make | xcomp |
| 20 | Tasek | Tasek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pusat | flat |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 offers | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Man | det |
| 23 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 offers | nsubj |
| 24 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 offers | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 home | det |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 offers | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 home | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sea | cc |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 sea | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sea | det |
| 32 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 land | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 offers | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 offers | nsubj |
| 36 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 offers | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 38 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 offers | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 eat | punct |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 eat | mark |
| 41 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 offers | parataxis |
| 42 | coconuts | coconut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 eat | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dig | punct |
| 44 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 eat | conj |
| 45 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 dig | obj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 climb | cc |
| 47 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 eat | conj |
| 48 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 climb | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gifts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | the Magician | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Magician not said here | every stone and hole and bunch of weed | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stone=Product | ||||
| 3 | offer | present | the Man | a home | land and the sea | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 4 | offer | present | the girl | girl's scissors | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | coconuts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient | |||||
| 6 | dig | infinitive | holes | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||||
| 7 | climb | infinitive | trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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:26.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.
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