Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 25
But be careful not to do it too hard, or I shall make a magic on you as I did to Pau Amma.»
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, not do, make, do · To what, where: idea, magic, Pau
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 (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 careful | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 hard | advmod |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 do | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 magic | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 did | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Pau | case |
| 23 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 did | obl |
| 24 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Pau | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | you not said here | idea | hard property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | make | shall | I | a magic | on you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product | |||
| 4 | do | past | I | Pau | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:25.
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): R7-rel-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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