Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 153
Know Pau Amma’s home as well As the fisher of the Sea knows ‘Bens,’ M.M.
Who acts: you · What happens: know · To what, where: home
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), 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 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pau | flat |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Pau | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Know | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 1 Know | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | As | as | ADP | _ | 10 fisher | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fisher | det |
| 10 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knows | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sea | det |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 knows | obl |
| 14 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Know | parataxis |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 16 Bens | case |
| 16 | Bens | ben | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knows | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knows | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 knows | punct |
| 19 | M.M | M.M | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 knows | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | Pau's home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | present | as the fisher; of the Sea; ‘ Bens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of sea=Stimulus |
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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