--- title: But the Man says the Sea is not obedient: once a day and once a nigh… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: But the Man says the Sea is not obedient: once a day and once a night it rushes up the Perak river and floods his house, then runs out again and leaves only mud. Who acts: Man, Sea. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/) / 5 # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 5 But the Man says the Sea is not obedient: once a day and once a night it rushes up the Perak river and floods his house, then runs out again and leaves only mud. **Who acts:** Man, Sea · **What happens:** say, not be, rush up, flood, run out, leave · **To what, where:** Perak river, house, mud · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Man, Sea), 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:5 # text = But the Man says the Sea is not obedient: once a day and once a night it rushes up the Perak river and floods his house, then runs out again and leaves only mud. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 obedient obedient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 11 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 19 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Perak Perak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 floods flood VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 31 out out ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 32 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | the Sea | | | | | obedient *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **rush up** | present | Sea | the Perak river | | | | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location river=Theme | | 4 | **flood** | present | Sea *not said here* | Man's house | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 5 | **run out** | present | Sea *not said here* | | | | then; again | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | present | Sea *not said here* | mud | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/4/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/)