Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 27

By and by the Eldest Magician met the Man on the banks of the Perak river, and said, ‘Ho!

What happens: meet, say · To what, where: Man, banks, Ho · 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: 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	By	by	ADP	_	6 Magician	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Magician	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 Magician	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Magician	det
5	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Magician	amod
6	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Man	det
9	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 banks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 banks	det
12	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Man	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
15	Perak	Perak	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 river	compound
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 banks	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Ho	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Ho	punct
22	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past		the Man		the banks of the Perak river		by the Eldest Magician	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		Ho					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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