Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 72

When you come back and sit in Pusat Tasek, the waters of the Sea rise, and half the little islands are drowned, and the Man’s house is flooded, and Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, his mouth is filled with the salt water.

Who acts: you · What happens: come back, sit, drown, flood, fill · To what, where: Pusat Tasek, little islands, house, Raja

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), 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 come	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sit	cc
6	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Tasek	case
8	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tasek	compound
9	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waters	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 waters	det
12	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Tasek	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 rise	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rise	det
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rise	compound
16	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waters	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drowned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drowned	cc
19	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	22 islands	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 islands	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 islands	amod
22	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drowned	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 drowned	aux:pass
24	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sit	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flooded	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flooded	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Man	det
28	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 Man	case
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flooded	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 flooded	aux:pass
32	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 drowned	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 filled	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 filled	cc
35	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 filled	nsubj
36	Abdullah	Abdullah	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Raja	flat
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 King	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Raja	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 Crocodiles	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Crocodiles	det
42	Crocodiles	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 King	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 mouth	punct
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mouth	nmod:poss
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Raja	appos
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 filled	aux:pass
47	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 come	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	51 water	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 water	det
50	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 water	compound
51	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 filled	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	present	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	present	you not said here		Pusat Tasek and the waters of the Sea rise		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tasek=Location
3	drown	present · passive		half little islands			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	flood	present · passive		the Man's house			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	fill	present · passive		Raja		with the salt water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument

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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