Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 103

I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west; But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest.

Who acts: I, families · What happens: send, work, give · To what, where: families, land, rest

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, families), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 send	nsubj
2	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 send	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 land	case
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 send	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sea	cc
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 send	nsubj
10	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 send	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 send	obj
12	east	east	ADV	_	10 send	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 west	cc
14	west	west	ADV	_	12 east	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
16	But	but	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 worked	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 worked	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 worked	aux
20	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 give	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 worked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 worked	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
25	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 send	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 rest	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	present	I	families = family		land and sea		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	send	present	I	families = family			east property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	work	present · perfect	families = family				for me	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary
4	give	present	I	all rest	families = family			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient rest=Theme

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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