Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 118
I can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a safe Pusat Tasek under every stone.
Who acts: I · What happens: breathe, find · To what, where: dry air, safe Pusat Tasek, stone
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 breathe | aux |
| 3 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 air | amod |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breathe | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 breathe | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Tasek | det |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Tasek | amod |
| 15 | Pusat | Pusat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tasek | compound |
| 16 | Tasek | Tasek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | can | I | the dry air | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | can | I | a safe Pusat Tasek | every stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tasek=Topic |
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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