Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 71
When you go out from your cave the waters of the Sea pour down into Pusat Tasek, and all the beaches of all the islands are left bare, and the little fish die, and Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, his legs are made muddy.
Who acts: you, waters, little fish · What happens: go out, pour down, leave, die, make · To what, where: cave, Pusat, beaches, Raja Moyang
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 (you, waters, little fish), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pour | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waters | det |
| 9 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pour | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sea | det |
| 12 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 waters | nmod |
| 13 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 pour | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Pusat | case |
| 16 | Pusat | Pusat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pour | obl |
| 17 | Tasek | Tasek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Pusat | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 beaches | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beaches | det |
| 22 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 left | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 islands | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 islands | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 islands | det |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beaches | nmod |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 left | aux:pass |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 pour | conj |
| 29 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 left | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 die | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 die | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fish | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fish | amod |
| 34 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 die | nsubj |
| 35 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pour | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 made | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 made | cc |
| 38 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Moyang | compound |
| 39 | Moyang | Moyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 made | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | Kaban | Kaban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Moyang | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 King | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 King | det |
| 43 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Moyang | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Elephants | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Elephants | det |
| 46 | Elephants | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 43 King | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 made | punct |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 legs | nmod:poss |
| 49 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 made | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 made | aux:pass |
| 51 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 die | parataxis |
| 52 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 made | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | you | your cave | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pour down | present | the waters of the Sea | Pusat | down property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pusat=Location | |||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | all beaches of all islands | bare property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | present | the little fish | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | make | present · passive | Raja Moyang | muddy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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