Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 93

And if I go to Pusat Tasek, all soft as I am now, though I may be safe, I can never stir out to get my food, and so I shall die.’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, be, not stir out, get, die · To what, where: Pusat Tasek, food

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 soft	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 soft	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Tasek	case
6	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tasek	compound
7	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 soft	advmod
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 am	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 am	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 soft	advcl
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 am	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 safe	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 safe	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 safe	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 safe	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 safe	cop
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 soft	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stir	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 stir	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 stir	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 stir	advmod
25	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 soft	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 stir	compound:prt
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stir	advcl
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 food	nmod:poss
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 die	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 die	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 die	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 die	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 die	aux
36	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stir	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 soft	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 soft	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	I		Pusat Tasek		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tasek=Initial_Location
2	is	may	I			safe property	tree rules
3	not stir out	can	I				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	my food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
5	die	shall	I				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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