--- title: Ever since, says Kipling, the Moon has pulled the sea up and down an… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: Ever since, says Kipling, the Moon has pulled the sea up and down and made the tides; when he pulls too hard we get spring tides, too softly, neap tides. Who acts: Kipling, Moon, we. 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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 (Kipling, Moon, we), 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:10 # text = Ever since, says Kipling, the Moon has pulled the sea up and down and made the tides; when he pulls too hard we get spring tides, too softly, neap tides. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 2 advmod _ _ 2 since since ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tides tide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 tides tide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 softly softly ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 neap neap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 tides tide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling | | | | | since *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pull** | present · perfect | the Moon | the sea | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | the Moon *not said here* | the tides | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product | | 4 | **pull** | present | Moon | | | | | hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get** | present | we | spring tides | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus | 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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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