Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 34

‘Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up the Perak river and drives the sweet-water back into the forest, so that my house is made wet; once a day and once a night it runs down the river and draws all the water after it, so that there is nothing left but mud, and my canoe is upset.

Who acts: Sea, house, nothing, canoe · What happens: run up, drive, make, run down, draw, be · To what, where: Perak river, sweet water, forest, house, river, water

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 (Sea, house, nothing, canoe), 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	_	11 runs	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 runs	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Once	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 night	cc
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 night	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sea	det
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 runs	nsubj
11	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	15 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
14	Perak	Perak	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 river	compound
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 runs	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drives	cc
17	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 runs	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 water	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sweet	punct
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drives	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	17 drives	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drives	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 made	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 house	nmod:poss
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux:pass
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 drives	conj
33	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 made	xcomp
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 runs	punct
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 runs	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 day	det
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 once	obl:unmarked
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 once	cc
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 once	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 night	det
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 runs	obl:unmarked
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 runs	nsubj
43	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 runs	conj
44	down	down	ADP	_	46 river	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 river	det
46	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 runs	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 draws	cc
48	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 runs	conj
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 water	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 water	det
51	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 draws	obj
52	after	after	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 draws	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 is	punct
55	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	58 is	mark
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 so	fixed
57	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	58 is	expl
58	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 draws	conj
59	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	58 is	nsubj
60	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 nothing	acl
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 mud	cc
62	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 left	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 upset	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 upset	cc
65	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 canoe	nmod:poss
66	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 upset	nsubj
67	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 upset	cop
68	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 runs	conj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	present	the Sea	the Perak river			once property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory
2	drive	present	the Sea not said here	the sweet water	the forest			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme into forest=Trajectory
3	make	present · passive		my house			wet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	run down	present	house	the river		night	once property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location river=Theme
5	draw	present	house not said here	all water		after house		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
6	be	present	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	leave	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	present	my canoe				upset 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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