Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 70

Then the Eldest Magician said, ‘Listen, Pau Amma.

Who acts: Eldest Magician · What happens: say, listen · To what, where: Pau · 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 (Eldest Magician), 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	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Magician	det
3	Eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 Magician	amod
4	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Listen	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Listen	punct
8	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Pau	punct
10	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Listen	obj
11	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pau	flat
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen	infinitive		Pau					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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