Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 20

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the bare patch where she had eaten, and upon the place where she had sat down, and one became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert of Sahara, and you can look them out on the map.

Who acts: Eldest Magician, Magician, Cow, one, other, you · What happens: say, breathe, eat, sit down, become, look out · To what, where: North, 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 (Eldest Magician, Magician, Cow, one), 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	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kun	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	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	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 breathed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 breathed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 breathed	nsubj
13	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 patch	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 patch	det
16	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 patch	amod
17	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breathed	obl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 eaten	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 eaten	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 eaten	aux
21	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 patch	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 place	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 place	cc
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 place	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breathed	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 sat	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sat	aux
30	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 place	acl:relcl
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 sat	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 became	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 became	cc
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 became	nsubj
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 breathed	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Desert	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Desert	amod
38	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Desert	amod
39	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 became	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 became	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 became	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 other	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 became	nsubj
44	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Desert	det
46	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 became	xcomp
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Sahara	case
48	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Desert	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 look	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 look	cc
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 look	nsubj
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 look	aux
53	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 became	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 look	obj
55	out	out	ADP	_	53 look	compound:prt
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 map	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 map	det
58	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 look	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	breathe	past	Magician			upon the bare patch; upon the place	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past · perfect	Cow				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past · perfect	Cow				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	become	past	one				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	become	past	the other				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	look out	can	you	North	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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