Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 14
I will take all the gifts.» The Magician uses «all five fingers of his right hand», and Pau Amma becomes «a little green crab», so tiny that he could hide under the shadow of a dry leaf.
Who acts: I, Magician, Pau · What happens: take, use, become, hide, shadow · To what, where: gifts, five fingers, little green crab, shadow, dry leaf · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 gifts | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gifts | det |
| 6 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Magician | det |
| 10 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uses | nsubj |
| 11 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 fingers | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 fingers | det:predet |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fingers | nummod |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 uses | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hand | amod |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fingers | nmod |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 fingers | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 becomes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 becomes | cc |
| 23 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 becomes | nsubj |
| 24 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Pau | flat |
| 25 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 uses | conj |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 crab | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 crab | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 crab | amod |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 crab | amod |
| 30 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 becomes | xcomp |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 crab | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tiny | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 tiny | advmod |
| 34 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 crab | appos |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 hide | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 hide | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 hide | aux |
| 38 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 tiny | advcl |
| 39 | under | under | ADP | _ | 41 shadow | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 shadow | det |
| 41 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hide | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 leaf | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 leaf | det |
| 44 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 leaf | amod |
| 45 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 shadow | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | all gifts | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent gift=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | use in a quote | present | the Magician | all five fingers of Pau's right hand | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become in a quote | present | Pau | a little green crab | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hide in a quote | could | Pau | the shadow of a dry leaf | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under shadow=Location | ||||
| 5 | shadow in a quote | a dry leaf | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:14.
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 ×2, 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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