Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 12
The Magician: «I will give it back, Pau Amma, for eleven months of the year; but on the twelfth month of every year it shall grow soft again, to remind you and all your children that I can make magics, and to keep you humble.»
Who acts: sea · What happens: give back, grow, remind, make, keep · To what, where: sea, you, magics · 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 (sea), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Magician | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Magician | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 give | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pau | punct |
| 11 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 give | vocative |
| 12 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pau | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 months | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 months | case |
| 15 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 months | nummod |
| 16 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | 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 | _ | 31 grow | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 grow | cc |
| 22 | on | on | 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 | 31 grow | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 month | nmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 grow | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 grow | aux |
| 31 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | conj |
| 32 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grow | xcomp |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 grow | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 remind | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 remind | mark |
| 36 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 grow | advcl |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 remind | iobj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 children | cc |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 children | det:predet |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 children | nmod:poss |
| 41 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 you | conj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 make | mark |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 make | nsubj |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 make | aux |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 remind | ccomp |
| 46 | magics | magic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 make | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 keep | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 keep | cc |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 keep | mark |
| 50 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 make | conj |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 keep | obj |
| 52 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 keep | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 54 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back in a quote | future | sea | sea | month | Pau vocative | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | grow in a quote | shall | sea | again; month | soft property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | remind speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | sea not said here | you | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | can | sea | magics | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | sea not said here | you | humble property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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