Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 30
Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles islands, was once found floating in the Indian Ocean; sailors who never saw the tree believed it grew under the sea, like Pauh Janggi.
Who acts: coco de, sailors, de · What happens: find, float, not see, believe, grow · To what, where: coco de, Indian Ocean, tree, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (coco de, sailors, de), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | dep |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 de | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 de | det |
| 5 | coco | Coco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 de | compound |
| 6 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | mer | mer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 de | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nut | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nut | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nut | amod |
| 11 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nut | amod |
| 12 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 de | appos |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 islands | det |
| 15 | Seychelles | Seychelles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 islands | compound |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nut | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 de | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 found | advmod |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 found | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Ocean | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Ocean | det |
| 24 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Ocean | amod |
| 25 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 floating | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 sailors | punct |
| 27 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 believed | nsubj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 saw | advmod |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sailors | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tree | det |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obj |
| 33 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 grew | nsubj |
| 35 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 believed | ccomp |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 sea | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sea | det |
| 38 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 grew | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Janggi | punct |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 Janggi | case |
| 41 | Pauh | Pauh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Janggi | compound |
| 42 | Janggi | Janggi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 grew | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | the coco de | once property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | the coco de not said here | the Indian Ocean | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not see | past | sailors | the tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | believe | past | sailors | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | de | the sea | like Pauh Janggi | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location |
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:30.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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