Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 126

If we had waited till Pau Amma had gone out of Pusat Tasek and come home, the water would have carried us there by itself.’

Who acts: we, Pau, way · What happens: wait, go out, come, carry · To what, where: Pusat Tasek, water

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, Pau, way), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 waited	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	aux
4	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
6	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
7	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pau	flat
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 waited	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 Tasek	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Tasek	case
12	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tasek	compound
13	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	conj
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 carried	aux
22	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 waited	conj
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 carried	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 itself	case
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 carried	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect	we				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out	past · perfect	Pau	Pusat Tasek			tree rules
3	come	infinitive	we not said here			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	would · perfect · passive	way	the water	there		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme subject=Beneficiary we=Value

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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