Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 13

‘If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the sea, with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must _not_ forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’

Who acts: you, that, one wrecked Mariner · What happens: swim, be, find, sit, not _, forget · To what, where: latitude, raft, suspenders, you, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, one wrecked Mariner), 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	_	21 find	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 swim	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 swim	nsubj
4	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 find	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 latitude	case
6	latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl
7	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 latitude	flat
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fifty	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 longitude	punct
10	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 latitude	conj
11	Forty	Forty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 longitude	appos
12	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Forty	flat
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 magic	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 magic	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 magic	cop
16	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 longitude	parataxis
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 magic	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swim	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 find	obj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 raft	case
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 on	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 raft	det
28	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 _	punct
30	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 raft	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 middle	case
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 in	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 middle	det
34	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sea	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sea	det
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 middle	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 nothing	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 nothing	case
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 find	parataxis
41	on	on	ADP	_	44 pair	case
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 pair	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 pair	det
44	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 nothing	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 breeches	case
46	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 breeches	amod
47	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 breeches	compound
48	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 pair	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 pair	punct
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 pair	det
51	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 nothing	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 suspenders	case
53	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 pair	nmod
54	(	(	PUNCT	_	57 _	punct
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 _	nsubj
56	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 _	aux
57	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 nothing	parataxis
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 _	advmod
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	60 forget	punct
60	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 _	advcl
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 suspenders	det
62	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 forget	obj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 Beloved	punct
64	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	65 Beloved	amod
65	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 _	parataxis
66	)	)	PUNCT	_	57 _	punct
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 knife	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 knife	cc
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 knife	det
70	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 knife	compound
71	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 jack	punct
72	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 nothing	conj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 Mariner	punct
74	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	78 Mariner	nummod
75	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 wrecked	compound
76	-	-	PUNCT	_	75 ship	punct
77	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	78 Mariner	amod
78	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 knife	appos
79	,	,	PUNCT	_	85 fair	punct
80	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	85 fair	nsubj
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 who	punct
82	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	85 fair	nsubj
83	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	85 fair	cop
84	only	only	ADV	_	85 fair	advmod
85	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 Mariner	conj
86	to	to	PART	_	87 tell	mark
87	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	85 fair	csubj
88	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	87 tell	iobj
89	,	,	PUNCT	_	92 man	punct
90	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	92 man	cop
91	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	92 man	det
92	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 nothing	conj
93	of	of	ADP	_	100 sagacity	case
94	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	96 resource	amod
95	-	-	PUNCT	_	94 infinite	punct
96	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	100 sagacity	nsubj
97	-	-	PUNCT	_	100 sagacity	punct
98	and	and	CCONJ	_	100 sagacity	cc
99	-	-	PUNCT	_	98 and	punct
100	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	92 man	nmod
101	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
102	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim a condition, not said to happen	present	you			latitude and longitude		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to latitude=Destination
2	is	present	that				magic property	tree rules
3	find	future	you					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	sit	gerund				a raft and _	in the middle of the sea	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on raft=Location
5	not _	must	you					tree rules
6	forget	infinitive	you not said here	the suspenders				tree rules
7	wreck	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	one wrecked Mariner				fair property	tree rules
9	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
10	is a	present	you not said here	a man			of sagacity	tree rules

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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