Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 44

Then all the beasts, birds, and fishes said together, ‘Eldest Magician, we play the plays that you taught us to play--we and our children’s children.

Who acts: we, you, plays · What happens: say, play, teach · To what, where: fishes, plays, us, we · 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 (we, you, plays), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 beasts	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 beasts	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beasts	det
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 birds	punct
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beasts	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fishes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fishes	cc
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beasts	conj
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fishes	acl
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Magician	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Magician	punct
14	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 Magician	amod
15	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 beasts	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 play	nsubj
18	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Magician	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plays	det
20	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 play	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 taught	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 taught	nsubj
23	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 plays	acl:relcl
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 taught	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 play	mark
26	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 taught	xcomp
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 we	punct
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 play	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 children	cc
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 children	nmod:poss
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 children	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 children	case
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 we	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beasts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle		fishes not said here		together property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	play	present	we	the plays			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
3	teach speech: other	past	you	the plays	us		tree rules
4	play	to-infinitive	the plays not said here	we			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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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