--- title: In the North the Elephant's diggings become the Himalayas; in the Ea… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: In the North the Elephant's diggings become the Himalayas; in the East the Cow's eaten patch and her sitting-place become the Indian Desert and the Sahara; in the West the Beaver's dam becomes the Everglades; in the South the Turtle's flung sand becomes the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia. 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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 (diggings, eaten patch, dam, flung sand), 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:4 # text = In the North the Elephant's diggings become the Himalayas; in the East the Cow's eaten patch and her sitting-place become the Indian Desert and the Sahara; in the West the Beaver's dam becomes the Everglades; in the South the Turtle's flung sand becomes the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 diggings digging NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Himalayas himalaya PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Cow cow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sitting sitting NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 25 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Beaver Beaver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 dam dam NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Everglades everglade PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 40 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obj 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 flung fling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 amod _ _ 51 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:obj 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 Malaysia Malaysia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 Indonesia Indonesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 conj _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present | the Elephant's diggings | | | | | in the North *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in north=Result | | 2 | **eat** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | present | the Cow's eaten patch and Elephant's sitting place | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | the Beaver's dam | | | | | in the West *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in west=Result | | 5 | **fling** | participle | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **become** | present | the Turtle's flung sand | the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia | | | | in the South *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in south=Result | | 7 | **dig** | | the Elephant | | | | | | nom digging «act transitive»: 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/3/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/)