Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 108
And Pau Amma said, ‘I do not choose yet, for, all soft as I am, these gifts would not help me.
Who acts: Pau, I, gifts · What happens: say, not choose, be, not help · To what, where: me · 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 (Pau, I, gifts), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pau | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 choose | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 choose | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 choose | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 choose | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 choose | advmod |
| 10 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 choose | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soft | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 soft | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soft | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 soft | det |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 choose | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 I | case |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 soft | obl |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 soft | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 gifts | det |
| 22 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 help | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 help | advmod |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 choose | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pau | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not choose | present · do-support | I | yet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I not said here | as I; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not help | would | this gifts | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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