Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 4
The Magician reaches down and touches Pau Amma's back, and the whole sea rises, as water rises in a basin when you put your hand in.
Who acts: Magician, whole sea, water, you · What happens: reach down, touch, rise, put in · To what, where: back, basin, hand
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, whole sea, water, you), 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 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 reaches | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 touches | cc |
| 6 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reaches | conj |
| 7 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pau | flat |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Pau | case |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touches | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rises | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rises | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rises | nsubj |
| 16 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reaches | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rises | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 rises | mark |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rises | nsubj |
| 20 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rises | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 basin | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 basin | det |
| 23 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rises | obl |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 put | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rises | advcl |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 put | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach down | present | the Magician | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | touch | present | the Magician not said here | Pau's back | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | present | the whole sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise | present | water | a basin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basin=Location | ||||
| 5 | put in | past | you | your hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
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:4.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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