Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 146
You can see when you go to the beach, how all Pau Amma’s babies make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under every stone and bunch of weed on the sands; you can see them waving their little scissors; and in some parts of the world they truly live on the dry land and run up the palm trees and eat cocoa-nuts, exactly as the girl-daughter promised.
Who acts: You, babies, girl daughter · What happens: see, go, make, wave, live, run up · To what, where: beach, little Pusat Taseks, stone, babies, little scissors, parts · 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 (You, babies, girl daughter), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 go | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 make | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Pau | det |
| 13 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 babies | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pau | flat |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Pau | case |
| 16 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | nsubj |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Taseks | amod |
| 19 | Pusat | Pusat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Taseks | compound |
| 20 | Taseks | Taseks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 themselves | case |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 Taseks | obl |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 stone | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 stone | det |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bunch | cc |
| 27 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stone | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 weed | case |
| 29 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bunch | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 sands | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sands | det |
| 32 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 weed | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 see | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | obj |
| 38 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 see | advcl |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 scissors | amod |
| 41 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 waving | obj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 parts | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 parts | cc |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 parts | case |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 parts | det |
| 46 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 live | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 world | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 world | det |
| 49 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 parts | nmod |
| 50 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 live | nsubj |
| 51 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 52 live | advmod |
| 52 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 53 | on | on | ADP | _ | 56 land | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 land | det |
| 55 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 land | amod |
| 56 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 live | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 run | cc |
| 58 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 live | conj |
| 59 | up | up | ADP | _ | 58 run | compound:prt |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 trees | det |
| 61 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 trees | compound |
| 62 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 run | obj |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 eat | cc |
| 64 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 live | conj |
| 65 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 nuts | compound |
| 66 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 65 cocoa | punct |
| 67 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 eat | obj |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 promised | punct |
| 69 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 75 promised | advmod |
| 70 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 75 promised | mark |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 daughter | det |
| 72 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 daughter | compound |
| 73 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 72 girl | punct |
| 74 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 promised | nsubj |
| 75 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | present | you | the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | make | present | all Pau's babies | little Pusat Taseks | every stone and bunch of weed on the sands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 4 | see | can | you | babies = baby | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wave | gerund | you not said here | babies's little scissors | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Patient | ||||
| 6 | live | present | babies = baby | some parts of the world | on the dry land; truly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | |||
| 7 | run up | present | babies = baby not said here | the palm trees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | eat | present | babies = baby not said here | cocoa nuts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | ||||
| 9 | promise speech: promise | past | the girl daughter | exactly property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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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