Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 74
Henceforward I will go out seven times a day, and the waters shall never be still.’
Who acts: I, waters · What happens: go out, not be
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 (I, waters), 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 | Henceforward | henceforward | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 be | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 be | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waters | det |
| 13 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 be | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 be | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 be | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | future | I | time | henceforward, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not be | shall | the waters | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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