--- title: At the Very Beginning the Eldest Magician gets the Earth and the Sea… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: At the Very Beginning the Eldest Magician gets the Earth and the Sea ready and teaches each animal its «play»: the Elephant plays at being an Elephant, the Beaver at being a Beaver, and so on. Who acts: Eldest Magician, Elephant, Magician. 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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 (Eldest Magician, Elephant, Magician), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:0 # text = At the Very Beginning the Eldest Magician gets the Earth and the Sea ready and teaches each animal its «play»: the Elephant plays at being an Elephant, the Beaver at being a Beaver, and so on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 3 Very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 Beginning begin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Eldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:appos 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 at at SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Beaver Beaver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 34 at at SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Beaver Beaver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 on on ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **get** | present | the Eldest Magician | the Earth and the Sea | | the Beginning | | ready *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent earth=Theme at begin=Asset | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the Eldest Magician *not said here* | Magician's play | each animal | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient play=Topic | | 3 | **play** | present | the Elephant | the Beaver | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | gerund | the Elephant *not said here* | a Elephant | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | gerund | | a Beaver | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **play** *in a quote* | | Magician | | | | | | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. 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