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title: He is not a deep-ocean sailor: «I'm in the coasting trade, and rarel… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is not a deep-ocean sailor: «I'm in the coasting trade, and rarely out of sight of land. Who acts: visit, Water Rat. 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 with its depend
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 19

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He is not a deep-ocean sailor: «I'm in the coasting trade, and rarely out of sight of land.

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**Who acts:** visit, Water Rat · **What happens:** not be, be, sight · **To what, where:** ocean sailor, coasting trade, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (visit, Water Rat), 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:19
# text = He is not a deep-ocean sailor: «I'm in the coasting trade, and rarely out of sight of land.
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	coasting	coasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | visit | a ocean sailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Water Rat *= rat* |  |  | the coasting trade and sight of land |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sight** *in a quote* |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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