Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 75

And the Eldest Magician said, ‘I cannot make you play the play you were meant to play, Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning; but if you are not afraid, come up and we will talk about it.’

Who acts: Eldest Magician, I, you, we · What happens: say, not make, not play, mean, play, escape · To what, where: you, play, Pau, me, Beginning · 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, I, you, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
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	_	11 make	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 play	det
15	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 meant	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 meant	aux:pass
18	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 play	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 play	mark
20	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 meant	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Pau	punct
22	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 play	obj
23	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Pau	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 escaped	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 escaped	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 escaped	nsubj
27	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 play	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 escaped	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 Beginning	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Beginning	det
31	Very	very	ADV	_	32 Beginning	advmod
32	Beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 escaped	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 come	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 come	cc
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 afraid	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 afraid	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 afraid	cop
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 afraid	advmod
39	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 come	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 afraid	punct
41	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
42	up	up	ADV	_	41 come	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 talk	cc
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 talk	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 talk	aux
46	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 come	conj
47	about	about	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 talk	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 come	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Eldest Magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not make	can	I	you			tree rules
3	not play	infinitive	you not said here	the play			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
4	mean	past · passive		you			tree rules
5	play not said to happen	to-infinitive		Pau			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pau=Theme
6	escape	past	you	me	at the Beginning		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location
7	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			afraid property	tree rules
8	come up	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	talk	future	we			about rise	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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