Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 26

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the sand and the rocks, where they had fallen in the sea, and they became the most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and the rest of the Malay Archipelago, and you can look them out on the map!

Who acts: Eldest Magician, Kun, rocks, rest · What happens: say, breathe, fall, become, look out · To what, where: sea, beautiful islands, rocks, 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, Kun, rocks, rest), 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	_	16 sand	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sand	det
16	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breathed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rocks	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rocks	det
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 breathed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fallen	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 fallen	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fallen	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fallen	aux
24	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 rocks	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fallen	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 became	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 islands	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 beautiful	advmod
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 islands	amod
35	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 became	xcomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Borneo	case
37	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 islands	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Celebes	punct
39	Celebes	Celebes	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Borneo	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Sumatra	punct
41	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Borneo	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Java	punct
43	Java	Java	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Borneo	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 look	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 look	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rest	det
47	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 look	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 Archipelago	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Archipelago	det
50	Malay	Malay	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Archipelago	compound
51	Archipelago	Archipelago	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 rest	nmod
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	31 became	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	the Eldest Magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	breathe	past	Kun			upon the sand	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past · perfect	rocks = rock		the sea		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
4	become	past	rocks = rock	the beautiful islands of Borneo and Celebes and Sumatra and Java			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	look out	can	the rest of the Malay Archipelago	rocks = rock	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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