Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 9

So the Fisherman of the Moon lets his line down and pulls the whole sea, and the canoe whizzes back into the Perak river.

Who acts: Fisherman, canoe · What happens: let down, pull, whiz back · To what, where: line, whole sea, Perak river

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 (Fisherman, canoe), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 lets	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fisherman	det
3	Fisherman	fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lets	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fisherman	nmod
7	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 line	nmod:poss
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lets	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	7 lets	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pulls	cc
12	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lets	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sea	amod
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulls	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whizzes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 whizzes	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 canoe	det
19	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 whizzes	nsubj
20	whizzes	whiz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lets	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 whizzes	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 river	det
24	Perak	Perak	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 river	compound
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 whizzes	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let down	present	the Fisherman of the Moon	Fisherman's line		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
2	pull	present	the Fisherman of the Moon not said here	the whole sea		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
3	whiz back	present	the canoe		the Perak river	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination

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:9.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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