Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 130

They shall be called the Malazy--the lazy people;’ and he held up his finger to the Moon and said, ‘O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home.

Who acts: Magician, Man · What happens: call, hold up, say, be, row · To what, where: children, finger · 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 (Magician, Man), 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	4 called	nsubj:pass
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 called	aux:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Malazy	det
6	Malazy	Malazy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Malazy	appos
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ’	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 called	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	nsubj
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 held	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 finger	nmod:poss
18	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Moon	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Moon	det
21	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 held	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Fisherman	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Fisherman	punct
26	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	27 Fisherman	case
27	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 here	punct
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 Fisherman	advmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 here	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Man	det
32	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 here	nsubj
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 lazy	advmod
34	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Man	amod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 row	mark
36	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 lazy	xcomp
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 row	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	shall · passive		children = child		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	hold up	past	Magician	Magician's finger	to the Moon	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot finger=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Magician not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the Man		here property	tree rules
5	row	to-infinitive	the Man not said here		home property	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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