Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 2

Add quicksand that swallows explorers whole, glass that slowly drips down old church windows, and diamonds squeezed out of lumps of coal, and you have the best playground geography there is.

Who acts: you, quicksand, glass, diamonds · What happens: add, swallow, drip down, squeeze out, have · To what, where: quicksand, explorers, old church windows, lumps, best playground geography

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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, quicksand, glass, diamonds), 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	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quicksand	quicksand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Add	obj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 swallows	nsubj
4	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 quicksand	acl:relcl
5	explorers	explorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swallows	obj
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 explorers	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glass	punct
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quicksand	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 drips	nsubj
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 drips	advmod
11	drips	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 glass	acl:relcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 drips	compound:prt
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 windows	amod
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 windows	compound
15	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drips	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 diamonds	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 diamonds	cc
18	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quicksand	conj
19	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 diamonds	acl
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 lumps	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 lumps	case
22	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 squeezed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 coal	case
24	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lumps	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Add	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 geography	det
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 geography	amod
31	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 geography	compound
32	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 is	expl
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 geography	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Add	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	quicksand and glass and diamonds		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quicksand=Patient
2	swallow	present	quicksand and glass and diamonds	explorers		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explorer=Patient
3	drip down	present	glass	old church windows	slowly property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Source
4	squeeze out	participle	diamonds not said here	lumps of coal		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme
5	have	present	you	the best playground geography		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geography=Patient

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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:2.

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 ×3, 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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