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title: The Magician breathes on the animals' work: Elephant, North, the Him… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician breathes on the animals' work: Elephant, North, the Himalayan Mountains; Cow, East, the Indian Desert and the Desert of Sahara; Beaver, West, the Everglades in Florida; Turtle, South, Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java and the Malay Archipelago. Who acts: Magician, animals. A sentence of th
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 15

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The Magician breathes on the animals' work: Elephant, North, the Himalayan Mountains; Cow, East, the Indian Desert and the Desert of Sahara; Beaver, West, the Everglades in Florida; Turtle, South, Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java and the Malay Archipelago.

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**Who acts:** Magician, animals · **What happens:** breathe, work · **To what, where:** Elephant, work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» 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 (Magician, animals), 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:15
# text = The Magician breathes on the animals' work: Elephant, North, the Himalayan Mountains; Cow, East, the Indian Desert and the Desert of Sahara; Beaver, West, the Everglades in Florida; Turtle, South, Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java and the Malay Archipelago.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Himalayan	Himalayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Everglades	Everglades	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	list	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	Celebes	Celebes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	Java	Java	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Archipelago	Archipelago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **breathe** | present | the Magician | Elephant and the Himalayan Mountains |  | the animals's work |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent north=Theme on work=Destination |
| 2 | **work** |  | the animals |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.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): R5-strong ×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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