--- title: He is a seafaring rat from Constantinople; his ancestor came there f… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: He is a seafaring rat from Constantinople; his ancestor came there from Norway with King Sigurd's sixty ships, and any harbour feels like home to him. Who acts: two, ancestor, harbour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, ancestor, harbour), 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:3 # text = He is a seafaring rat from Constantinople; his ancestor came there from Norway with King Sigurd's sixty ships, and any harbour feels like home to him. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 seafaring seafaring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Constantinople Constantinople PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 ancestor ancestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:desc _ _ 17 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 24 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound 25 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | two | a seafaring rat | | Constantinople | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | two's ancestor | | | Norway; there | | with Sigurd King's sixty ships | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from norway=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **feel** | present | any harbour | | | | | like home to two | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like home=Theme | 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](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:3`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/1/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/)