--- title: The Magician makes a deal: Pau Amma gets his hard shell back for ele… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Magician makes a deal: Pau Amma gets his hard shell back for eleven months of the year, but in the twelfth month it will go soft again, to keep him humble. Who acts: Magician, Pau. 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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 (Magician, Pau), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:0 # text = The Magician makes a deal: Pau Amma gets his hard shell back for eleven months of the year, but in the twelfth month it will go soft again, to keep him humble. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 twelfth twelfth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 29 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 humble humble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | the Magician | a deal | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deal=Product | | 2 | **get** | present | Pau | Pau's hard shell | | | month | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus | | 3 | **go** | future | Magician | | | | again; month | soft *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Magician *not said here* | Pau | | | | humble *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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