Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 10
Ever since, says Kipling, the Moon has pulled the sea up and down and made the tides; when he pulls too hard we get spring tides, too softly, neap tides.
Who acts: Kipling, Moon, we · What happens: say, pull, make, get · To what, where: sea, tides, spring tides · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kipling, Moon, we), 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 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 since | advmod |
| 2 | since | since | ADV | _ | 4 says | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 since | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | aux |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 pulled | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 down | cc |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 up | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tides | det |
| 19 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 pulls | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 pulls | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pulls | nsubj |
| 23 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | advcl |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 hard | advmod |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 pulls | advmod |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 get | nsubj |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hard | ccomp |
| 28 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tides | compound |
| 29 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 get | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 softly | punct |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 softly | advmod |
| 32 | softly | softly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 pulls | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tides | punct |
| 34 | neap | neap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tides | amod |
| 35 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 softly | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kipling | since property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pull | present · perfect | the Moon | the sea | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the Moon not said here | the tides | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product | ||||
| 4 | pull | present | Moon | hard property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | present | we | spring tides | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus |
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:10.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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