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title: They shall be called the Malazy--the lazy people;’ and he held up hi… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall be called the Malazy--the lazy people;’ and he held up his finger to the Moon and said, ‘O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home. Who acts: Magician, Man. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 130

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They shall be called the Malazy--the lazy people;’ and he held up his finger to the Moon and said, ‘O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home.

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**Who acts:** Magician, Man · **What happens:** call, hold up, say, be, row · **To what, where:** children, finger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Magician, Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:11:130
# text = They shall be called the Malazy--the lazy people;’ and he held up his finger to the Moon and said, ‘O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Malazy	Malazy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	27	case	_	_
27	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	home	home	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | shall · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold up** | past | Magician | Magician's finger |  |  |  | to the Moon | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot finger=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the Man |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **row** | to-infinitive | the Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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