Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 26
Kipling: «From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea up and down and made what we call the tides»; too hard makes spring tides, too softly makes neap tides.
Who acts: Moon, we, hard · What happens: pull, make, call · To what, where: sea, tides, spring tides, neap tides · 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 (Moon, we, hard), 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 | Kipling | kipling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | dep |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 « | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 4 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pulled | aux |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 pulled | advmod |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 pulled | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 down | cc |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 up | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 pulled | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 call | obj |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 call | nsubj |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tides | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tides | det |
| 25 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 hard | advmod |
| 29 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 makes | nsubj |
| 30 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pulled | parataxis |
| 31 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tides | compound |
| 32 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 makes | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 makes | punct |
| 34 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 softly | advmod |
| 35 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 36 makes | advmod |
| 36 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 makes | conj |
| 37 | neap | neap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tides | amod |
| 38 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 makes | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kipling | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull in a quote | present · perfect | the Moon | the sea | day | always property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make in a quote | participle | the Moon not said here | the tides | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | we | the tides | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | hard | spring tides | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product | ||||
| 5 | make | present | hard not said here | neap tides | softly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product |
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:26.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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