Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 23

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the fallen trees and the still water, and they became the Everglades in Florida, and you may look them out on the map.

Who acts: Eldest Magician, Magician, waters, you · What happens: say, breathe, fall, become, look out · To what, where: Florida, waters, 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, waters, 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	‘	'	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 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
16	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 trees	amod
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 breathed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 water	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 water	advmod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trees	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 breathed	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Everglades	det
27	Everglades	Everglade	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 became	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Florida	case
29	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 became	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 look	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 look	cc
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 look	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 look	aux
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 look	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	34 look	compound:prt
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 map	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 map	det
39	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 look	obl
40	.	.	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 fallen trees and the water	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	waters = water			in Florida result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in florida=Result
5	look out	may	you	waters = water	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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