Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 87

Shall I send for Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, to pierce you with his tusks, or shall I call Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, to bite you?’

Who acts: I · What happens: send, pierce, call, bite · To what, where: you, Raja · 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 (I), 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 send	nsubj
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 Moyang	case
5	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Moyang	compound
6	Moyang	Moyang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 send	obl
7	Kaban	Kaban	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Moyang	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 King	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Moyang	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Elephants	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Elephants	det
13	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 King	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pierce	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pierce	mark
16	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 send	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 pierce	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 tusks	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tusks	nmod:poss
20	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pierce	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 call	cc
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 call	aux
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 call	nsubj
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 send	parataxis
26	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 call	obj
27	Abdullah	Abdullah	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Raja	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 King	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Raja	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Crocodiles	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Crocodiles	det
33	Crocodiles	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 King	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bite	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 bite	mark
36	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 call	conj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 bite	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	shall	I			for Raja Moyang	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pierce	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		with Elephant's tusks	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with tusk=Instrument
3	call	shall	I		Raja		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent raja=Recipient
4	bite	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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