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title: The domestic storm-cone was hoisted», so he shipped on a small tradi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The domestic storm-cone was hoisted», so he shipped on a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople — a storm-cone is a signal hung up in harbours to warn of a storm, so this is a joke meaning there were quarrels at home. Who acts: voyage, storm cone, this, joke. A sentence of the lesson «The Wi
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 23

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The domestic storm-cone was hoisted», so he shipped on a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople — a storm-cone is a signal hung up in harbours to warn of a storm, so this is a joke meaning there were quarrels at home.

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**Who acts:** voyage, storm cone, this, joke, quarrels · **What happens:** hoist, ship, bind, be, hang up, warn · **To what, where:** domestic storm cone, small trading vessel, Constantinople, signal, harbours, joke · **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 (voyage, storm cone, this, joke), 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:23
# text = The domestic storm-cone was hoisted», so he shipped on a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople — a storm-cone is a signal hung up in harbours to warn of a storm, so this is a joke meaning there were quarrels at home.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	hoisted	hoist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:Number=Plur
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shipped	ship	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
29	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	harbours	harbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
40	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
44	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	acl	_	_
45	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	46	expl	_	_
46	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
47	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **hoist** | past · passive |  | the domestic storm cone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ship** *in a quote* | past | voyage |  |  | a small trading vessel |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bind** *in a quote* | participle |  | a small trading vessel *not said here* |  | Constantinople |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a storm cone | a signal and a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hang up** *in a quote* | participle |  | a signal and a joke *not said here* |  | harbours |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in harbour=Location |
| 6 | **warn** *speech: warn* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of a storm | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of storm=Topic |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **mean** *in a quote* | gerund | a joke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **be** *in a quote* | past | quarrels |  |  | home; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

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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:23`.

**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, R8-pos-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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