Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 98

Look! there is that Man who talked to you at the Very Beginning.

Who acts: you, Man · What happens: look, be, talk · To what, where: you, Beginning

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, Man), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Man	det
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 talked	nsubj
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Man	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 talked	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 Beginning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Beginning	det
13	Very	very	ADV	_	14 Beginning	advmod
14	Beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talked	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	be	present	that Man		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	past	that Man	you		at the Beginning	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-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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