Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 6
Kun?» «Payah kun,» says the Magician, laughing, and the tiny crab scuttles away.
Who acts: Kun, tiny crab · What happens: say, laugh, scuttle away · 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 (Kun, tiny crab), 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 | Kun | Kun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kun | punct |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kun | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 5 | Payah | Payah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kun | compound |
| 6 | kun | kun | X | _ | 3 » | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 » | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 » | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Magician | det |
| 11 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughing | punct |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 says | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scuttles | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scuttles | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crab | det |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crab | amod |
| 18 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scuttles | nsubj |
| 19 | scuttles | scuttle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 scuttles | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Kun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | gerund | Kun not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scuttle away in a quote | present | the tiny crab | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «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:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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