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title: The gifts: the Magician offers to make every stone, hole and bunch o… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The gifts: the Magician offers to make every stone, hole and bunch of weed a safe Pusat Tasek; the Man offers a home on land and in the sea; the girl offers her scissors, to eat coconuts, dig holes and climb trees. Who acts: Magician, Man, girl. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab th
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 26

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The gifts: the Magician offers to make every stone, hole and bunch of weed a safe Pusat Tasek; the Man offers a home on land and in the sea; the girl offers her scissors, to eat coconuts, dig holes and climb trees.

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**Who acts:** Magician, Man, girl · **What happens:** offer, make, eat, dig, climb · **To what, where:** stone, home, land, scissors, coconuts, holes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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, Man, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:26
# text = The gifts: the Magician offers to make every stone, hole and bunch of weed a safe Pusat Tasek; the Man offers a home on land and in the sea; the girl offers her scissors, to eat coconuts, dig holes and climb trees.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
19	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
20	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	parataxis	_	_
42	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
44	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
45	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
48	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present | the Magician |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Magician *not said here* | every stone and hole and bunch of weed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stone=Product |
| 3 | **offer** | present | the Man | a home |  | land and the sea |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** | present | the girl | girl's scissors |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | coconuts |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient |
| 6 | **dig** | infinitive |  | holes |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 7 | **climb** | infinitive |  | trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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.

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