Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 152
CHINA-GOING P’s and O’s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.’s. U.Y.K. and N.D.L.
Who acts: Pusat Tasek · What happens: go, lie · To what, where: P ’s, track
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 (Pusat Tasek), 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 | CHINA | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 GOING | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 CHINA | punct |
| 3 | GOING | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | P | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’s | compound |
| 5 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 GOING | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 playground | cc |
| 7 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 playground | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 O | case |
| 9 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pau | compound |
| 10 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 playground | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pau | flat |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Pau | case |
| 13 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 GOING | conj |
| 14 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 GOING | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lies | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lies | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Tasek | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Pusat | Pusat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tasek | compound |
| 19 | Tasek | Tasek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 GOING | advcl |
| 21 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 23 track | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 track | det |
| 23 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lies | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 B.I | case |
| 25 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 B.I | amod |
| 26 | B.I | B.I | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 track | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 GOING | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 GOING | punct |
| 29 | s. | s. | ADV | Typo=Yes | 3 GOING | advmod |
| 30 | U.Y.K | U.Y.K | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 s. | goeswith |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 GOING | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 N.D.L | cc |
| 33 | N.D.L | N.D.L | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 GOING | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 GOING | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | P ’s | close property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location '=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | Pau's Pusat Tasek | the track of most B.I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near track=Location |
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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