--- title: Real life: the Everglades in Florida are a very wide, slow «river of… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: the Everglades in Florida are a very wide, slow «river of grass» over flat land, made by rain and water flowing south, not by a beaver; there are no beavers in the Everglades. Who acts: Everglades, water, beavers. 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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 (Everglades, water, beavers), 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:22 # text = Real life: the Everglades in Florida are a very wide, slow «river of grass» over flat land, made by rain and water flowing south, not by a beaver; there are no beavers in the Everglades. # 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 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Everglades Everglades PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 south south ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Everglades everglade PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Everglades in Florida | a wide slow river | | flat land | | of grass | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a wide slow river *not said here* | | | | by rain and water; by a beaver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **flow** | gerund | water *not said here* | | | | | south *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **does** | present | no beavers in the Everglades | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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