Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 38

‘Look!’ said the Man, and as he spoke the great Sea came up the mouth of the Perak river, driving the river backwards till it overflowed all the dark forests for miles and miles, and flooded the Man’s house.

Who acts: Man, Sea · What happens: look, say, speak, come up, drive, overflow · To what, where: great Sea, mouth, river, dark forests, house · 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 (Man, Sea), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
7	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 spoke	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spoke	nsubj
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sea	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Sea	amod
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spoke	obj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouth	det
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
22	Perak	Perak	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 river	compound
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouth	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 driving	punct
25	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 driving	obj
28	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	25 driving	advmod
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 overflowed	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 overflowed	nsubj
31	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 driving	advcl
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 forests	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 forests	det
34	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 forests	compound
35	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 overflowed	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 miles	case
37	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 forests	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 miles	cc
39	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 miles	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flooded	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flooded	cc
42	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Man	det
44	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 house	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 Man	case
46	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flooded	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	past	Man	the great Sea		tree rules
4	come up	past	the Man not said here	the mouth of the Perak river		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
5	drive	gerund	the Man not said here	the river	backwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory
6	overflow	past	Sea	all dark forests	for miles and miles	tree rules
7	flood	past	the Man not said here	the Man's house		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient

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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