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title: «I'm a seafaring rat, I am, and the port I originally hail from is C… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: «I'm a seafaring rat, I am, and the port I originally hail from is Constantinople» (hail from = come from). Who acts: Water Rat, port, hail. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» of the books course of Mova's primary s
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 14

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«I'm a seafaring rat, I am, and the port I originally hail from is Constantinople» (hail from = come from).

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**Who acts:** Water Rat, port, hail · **What happens:** be, hail, come · **To what, where:** seafaring rat, port, Constantinople

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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 (Water Rat, port, hail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:14
# text = «I'm a seafaring rat, I am, and the port I originally hail from is Constantinople» (hail from = come from).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	seafaring	seafaring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hail	hail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Constantinople	constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	nmod	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	punct	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Water Rat *= rat* | a seafaring rat and Constantinople |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hail** *in a quote* | present | the Water Rat *= rat* | the port *not said here* |  |  |  | originally *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the port | Constantinople |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | hail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:14`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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