Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 28
Son of Adam, are all the Animals obedient to you?’
Who acts: Son · What happens: be · To what, where: you
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 (Son), 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 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 obedient | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Adam | case |
| 3 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Son | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Son | punct |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 obedient | cop |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 Animals | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Animals | det |
| 8 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 obedient | nsubj |
| 9 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 obedient | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 obedient | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 obedient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Son of Adam | you | obedient property | 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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