Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 0
The Magician makes a deal: Pau Amma gets his hard shell back for eleven months of the year, but in the twelfth month it will go soft again, to keep him humble.
Who acts: Magician, Pau · What happens: make, get, go, keep · To what, where: deal, hard shell, Pau
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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, Pau), 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 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 gets | punct |
| 7 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | nsubj |
| 8 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pau | flat |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shell | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shell | amod |
| 12 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 gets | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 months | case |
| 15 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 months | nummod |
| 16 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gets | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 months | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 month | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 month | det |
| 24 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 month | amod |
| 25 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gets | conj |
| 29 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 go | xcomp |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 keep | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 keep | mark |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 keep | obj |
| 35 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 keep | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the Magician | a deal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deal=Product | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Pau | Pau's hard shell | month | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | go | future | Magician | again; month | soft property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | Magician not said here | Pau | humble property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:0.
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 ×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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