Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 91

Then Pau Amma said, ‘What shall I do?

Who acts: Pau, I · What happens: say, do · 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 (Pau, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pau	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Pau				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	shall	I						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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