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title: And Pau Amma’s babies hate being taken out of their little Pusat Tas… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And Pau Amma’s babies hate being taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles. Who acts: babies. 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 150

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And Pau Amma’s babies hate being taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles.

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**Who acts:** babies · **What happens:** hate, take out, bring · **To what, where:** little Pusat Taseks, pickle bottles

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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 (babies), 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:pg2781:11:150
# text = And Pau Amma’s babies hate being taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Taseks	Taseks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	pickle	pickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | Pau's babies |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take out** *not said to happen* | gerund · passive | Pau's babies *not said here* | babies's little Pusat Taseks |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: taseks=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Pau's babies *not said here* |  |  | pickle bottles |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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