Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 20

In the story the Magician calls the Man lazy and says his children will be the laziest people in the world, with a made-up name for the people of Malaya.

Who acts: Magician, children · What happens: call, say, be, make up · To what, where: Man, story, laziest people, world · 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 (Magician, children), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Magician	det
5	Magician	magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 calls	nsubj
6	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
8	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	obj
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calls	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 calls	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 people	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 people	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 people	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
17	laziest	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 says	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 people	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 name	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	28 name	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 name	det
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 name	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 up	punct
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 made	compound:prt
28	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 people	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 name	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Malaya	case
33	Malaya	Malaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 people	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 calls	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present	the Magician		the Man	the story	lazy property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	the Magician not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	future	Man's children	the laziest people		the world	with a made name for the people of Malaya	tree rules
4	make up	participle						vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:20.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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