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title: ‘See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night for eve… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen may be saved paddling. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 139

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‘See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen may be saved paddling.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, pull, save · **To what, where:** Sea, Malazy fishermen

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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 (you), 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:pg2781:11:139
# text = ‘See now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen may be saved paddling.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	case	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Malazy	malazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	paddling	paddling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | so saved paddling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pull** | present | you | the Sea |  |  | day | twice *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent sea=Result |
| 3 | **save** | may · passive |  | the Malazy fishermen |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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