Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 96

‘I cannot make you play the play you were meant to play, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning; but if you choose, I can make every stone and every hole and every bunch of weed in all the seas a safe Pusat Tasek for you and your children for always.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not make, not play, mean, play, escape, choose · To what, where: you, play, me, Beginning, stone, seas

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, you), 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	_	5 make	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 play	det
9	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 meant	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 meant	aux:pass
12	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 play	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 meant	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 escaped	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 escaped	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 escaped	nsubj
18	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 play	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 escaped	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 Beginning	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Beginning	det
22	Very	very	ADV	_	23 Beginning	advmod
23	Beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 escaped	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 make	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 choose	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 choose	nsubj
28	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 make	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 choose	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 make	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	conj
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 stone	det
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hole	cc
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 hole	det
37	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stone	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 bunch	cc
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 bunch	det
40	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stone	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 weed	case
42	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bunch	nmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 seas	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 seas	det:predet
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 seas	det
46	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obl
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 Tasek	det
48	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Tasek	amod
49	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Tasek	compound
50	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 seas	nmod
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 you	case
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 Tasek	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 children	cc
54	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 children	nmod:poss
55	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 you	conj
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 always	case
57	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 make	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not make	can	I	you			tree rules
2	not play	infinitive	you not said here	the play			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
3	mean	past · passive		you			tree rules
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	escape	past	you	me		at the Beginning	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location
6	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	make	can	I	every stone and every hole and every bunch of weed	all seas a safe Pusat Tasek		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent stone=Product for always=Asset

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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