Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 14

So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he could swim, and _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the sea, _with_ nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), _and_ a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes in the water.

Who acts: Whale, you, jack knife, one single solitary · What happens: swim, wear, remember, find, shipwreck, trail · To what, where: raft, latitude, suspenders, one single solitary, Mariner, toes

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 (Whale, you, jack knife, one single solitary), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Whale	det
3	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swam	cc
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 latitude	case
8	latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	obl
9	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 latitude	flat
10	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fifty	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Forty	punct
12	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Forty	compound
13	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 latitude	appos
14	West	west	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fast	punct
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 swam	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 swim	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swim	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 swim	aux
21	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fast	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 raft	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 raft	cc
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 and	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	4 swam	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	28 raft	nmod
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	_	42 nothing	punct
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 nothing	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 nothing	case
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 nothing	punct
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 swam	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 wear	mark
44	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 nothing	acl
45	except	except	ADP	_	47 pair	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 pair	det
47	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wear	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 breeches	case
49	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 breeches	amod
50	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 breeches	compound
51	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 pair	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 pair	punct
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 pair	det
54	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pair	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 suspenders	case
56	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 pair	nmod
57	(	(	PUNCT	_	61 remember	punct
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	61 remember	nsubj
59	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 remember	aux
60	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	61 remember	advmod
61	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 nothing	parataxis
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 suspenders	det
63	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 remember	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 Beloved	punct
65	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	66 Beloved	amod
66	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 remember	vocative
67	)	)	PUNCT	_	61 remember	punct
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nothing	punct
69	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 found	cc
71	_	_	PUNCT	_	78 found	punct
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 knife	det
73	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 knife	compound
74	-	-	PUNCT	_	73 jack	punct
75	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 found	nsubj
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 knife	punct
77	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 found	nsubj
78	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
79	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	82 solitary	nummod
80	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 solitary	amod
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 single	punct
82	solitary	solitary	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 found	obj
83	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	82 solitary	acl
84	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	83 shipwrecked	obj
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 trailing	punct
86	trailing	trail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	78 found	advcl
87	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	88 toes	nmod:poss
88	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	86 trailing	obj
89	in	in	ADP	_	91 water	case
90	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	91 water	det
91	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 trailing	obl
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the Whale		a raft in the middle of the sea and _		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on raft=Trajectory
2	swim	past	the Whale not said here		latitude	fast, west property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to latitude=Destination
3	swim	could	Whale				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wear	to-infinitive	the Whale not said here			except a pair of blue canvas breeches and a pair of suspenders	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	remember	must	you	the suspenders		Best Beloved vocative; particularly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent suspender=Theme
6	find	past	a jack knife	one single solitary			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solitary=Topic
7	shipwreck	participle	one single solitary not said here	Mariner			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mariner=Patient
8	trail	gerund	a jack knife not said here	sea's toes	the water		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toe=Theme in water=Trajectory

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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