Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 125

‘But now we must go back to Perak, and that is a weary way to paddle.

Who acts: we, that · What happens: go back, be, paddle · To what, where: weary way

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 (we, that), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 go	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Perak	case
9	Perak	Perak	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 back	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 way	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 way	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 way	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 paddle	mark
18	paddle	paddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	acl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go back	must	we		now	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	that	a weary way		tree rules
3	paddle	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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