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title: You can see when you go to the beach, how all Pau Amma’s babies make… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: You can see when you go to the beach, how all Pau Amma’s babies make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under every stone and bunch of weed on the sands; you can see them waving their little scissors; and in some parts of the world they truly live on the dry land and run up the palm trees and eat co
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 146

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You can see when you go to the beach, how all Pau Amma’s babies make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under every stone and bunch of weed on the sands; you can see them waving their little scissors; and in some parts of the world they truly live on the dry land and run up the palm trees and eat cocoa-nuts, exactly as the girl-daughter promised.

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**Who acts:** You, babies, girl daughter · **What happens:** see, go, make, wave, live, run up · **To what, where:** beach, little Pusat Taseks, stone, babies, little scissors, parts · **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 (You, babies, girl daughter), 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:pg2781:11:146
# text = You can see when you go to the beach, how all Pau Amma’s babies make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under every stone and bunch of weed on the sands; you can see them waving their little scissors; and in some parts of the world they truly live on the dry land and run up the palm trees and eat cocoa-nuts, exactly as the girl-daughter promised.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
16	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Taseks	Taseks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
59	up	up	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obj	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
65	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
69	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
70	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	75	mark	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
72	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	nsubj	_	_
75	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | present | you |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | present | all Pau's babies | little Pusat Taseks |  | every stone and bunch of weed on the sands |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **see** | can | you | babies *= baby* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wave** | gerund | you *not said here* | babies's little scissors |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Patient |
| 6 | **live** | present | babies *= baby* |  |  | some parts of the world |  | on the dry land; truly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
| 7 | **run up** | present | babies *= baby* *not said here* | the palm trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory |
| 8 | **eat** | present | babies *= baby* *not said here* | cocoa nuts |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient |
| 9 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the girl daughter |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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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