Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 129
They shall be the laziest people in the world.
Who acts: children · What happens: be · To what, where: laziest people, world
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 (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 people | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 people | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 people | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 5 | laziest | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | children = child | the laziest people | the world | 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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