Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 148
And so it isn’t fair to kill or hunt Pau Amma’s babies just because old Pau Amma was stupidly rude a very long time ago.
Who acts: it, old Pau · What happens: not be, kill, hunt, be · To what, where: babies
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 (it, old Pau), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fair | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 fair | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fair | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fair | cop |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fair | advmod |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fair | csubj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hunt | cc |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 kill | conj |
| 11 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 babies | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pau | flat |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Pau | case |
| 14 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hunt | obj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 rude | advmod |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 rude | mark |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Pau | amod |
| 18 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rude | nsubj |
| 19 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pau | flat |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rude | cop |
| 21 | stupidly | stupidly | ADV | _ | 22 rude | advmod |
| 22 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hunt | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 22 rude | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | it | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | hunt | infinitive | Pau's babies | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | old Pau | ago, rude, stupidly property | 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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