Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 83

‘You are not so important after all, Pau Amma,’ he said.

Who acts: You, Pau · What happens: not be, say · 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 (You, Pau), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 important	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 important	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 important	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 important	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 important	advmod
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 important	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Pau	punct
10	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 important	conj
11	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pau	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 important	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 important	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	You				after all	important property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Pau						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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