Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 17

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician, meaning, ‘That is quite right’; and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became the great Himalayan Mountains, and you can look them out on the map.

Who acts: Payah kun, That, Kun, lumps, you · What happens: say, mean, be, breathe, have, throw up · To what, where: Elephant, lumps, map · 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 (Payah kun, That, Kun, lumps), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 kun	punct
2	Payah	Payah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kun	compound
3	kun	kun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kun	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 kun	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Magician	det
8	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 Magician	amod
9	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meaning	punct
11	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
14	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 right	advmod
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meaning	obj
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 breathed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 breathed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 breathed	nsubj
22	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 rocks	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rocks	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rocks	amod
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 breathed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lumps	cc
28	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rocks	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 earth	case
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lumps	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 thrown	obj
32	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 Elephant	det
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Elephant	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Elephant	det
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 the	punct
36	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thrown	nsubj:pass
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Elephant	punct
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 thrown	expl
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 had	aux:pass
41	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 thrown	parataxis
42	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 earth	acl:relcl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 thrown	compound:prt
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 became	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 became	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 became	nsubj
47	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 breathed	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Mountains	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Mountains	amod
50	Himalayan	Himalayan	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Mountains	compound
51	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	47 became	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 look	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 look	cc
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 look	nsubj
55	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 look	aux
56	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
57	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 look	obj
58	out	out	ADP	_	56 look	compound:prt
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 map	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 map	det
61	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 look	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Payah kun				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	gerund	Payah kun not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	That			right property	tree rules
4	breathe	past	Kun			upon the great rocks and lumps of earth	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past · passive					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»
6	throw up	participle · passive		all Elephant	there		tree rules
7	become	past	lumps = lump				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	look out	can	you	lumps = lump	the map		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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