Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 24
The Magician warns the Fisherman to pull «twice a day and twice a night for ever ...
Who acts: Magician, Fisherman · What happens: warn, pull · To what, where: Fisherman
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, Fisherman), 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 warns | nsubj |
| 3 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fisherman | det |
| 5 | Fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warns | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pull | mark |
| 7 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 warns | xcomp |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 night | punct |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 night | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twice | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 twice | cc |
| 13 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 twice | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warns | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 night | nmod |
| 18 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 3 warns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present | the Magician | the Fisherman | night | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | pull | to-infinitive | the Fisherman not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: 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:24.
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. 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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