Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 10

And the Eldest Magician said, ‘Ho, Son of Adam, this is the play of the Very Beginning; but you are too wise for this play.’

Who acts: Eldest Magician, this, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eldest Magician, this, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Magician	det
3	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 Magician	amod
4	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ho	punct
7	‘	‘	ADP	_	8 Ho	case
8	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Son	punct
10	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ho	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Adam	case
12	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Son	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 play	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 play	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 play	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 play	det
17	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Ho	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Beginning	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Beginning	det
20	Very	very	ADV	_	21 Beginning	advmod
21	Beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 wise	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 wise	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 wise	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wise	cop
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 wise	advmod
27	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 play	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 play	det
30	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wise	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 wise	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician			‘ Ho and Son of Adam	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	this	the play	of the Beginning		tree rules
3	is	present	you			for this play; wise property	tree rules

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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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