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title: At Marseilles (a big port in the south of France) he met old shipmat… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: At Marseilles (a big port in the south of France) he met old shipmates; «sometimes I dream of the shell-fish of Marseilles, and wake up crying!» Who acts: crew. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» of the books cours
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 15

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At Marseilles (a big port in the south of France) he met old shipmates; «sometimes I dream of the shell-fish of Marseilles, and wake up crying!»

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**Who acts:** crew · **What happens:** meet, dream, wake up, cry · **To what, where:** old shipmates, Marseilles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» 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 (crew), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:15
# text = At Marseilles (a big port in the south of France) he met old shipmates; «sometimes I dream of the shell-fish of Marseilles, and wake up crying!»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Marseilles	Marseille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shipmates	shipmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dream	dream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Marseilles	Marseille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
33	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 | **meet** | past | crew | old shipmates |  | Marseilles |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** *in a quote* | present | the crew *= crew* |  |  |  |  | of the shell fish of Marseilles; sometimes *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wake up** *in a quote* | present | the crew *= crew* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | the crew *= crew* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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