--- title: The Magician: «I will give it back, Pau Amma, for eleven months of t… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Magician: «I will give it back, Pau Amma, for eleven months of the year; but on the twelfth month of every year it shall grow soft again, to remind you and all your children that I can make magics, and to keep you humble.» Who acts: sea. 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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 (sea), 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:12 # text = The Magician: «I will give it back, Pau Amma, for eleven months of the year; but on the twelfth month of every year it shall grow soft again, to remind you and all your children that I can make magics, and to keep you 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:iobj 9 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 12 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 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 7 obl _ _ 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 : _ 31 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 on on 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 31 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 32 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 remind remind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 41 det:predet _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 46 magics magic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 51 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 humble humble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 xcomp _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 54 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give back** *in a quote* | future | sea | sea | | | month | Pau *vocative* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | shall | sea | | | | again; month | soft *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **remind** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | sea *not said here* | | you | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | can | sea | magics | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | sea *not said here* | you | | | | humble *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/11/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/)