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title: CHINA-GOING P’s and O’s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pu… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: CHINA-GOING P’s and O’s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.’s. U.Y.K. and N.D.L. Who acts: Pusat Tasek. 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 claus
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 152

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CHINA-GOING P’s and O’s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.’s. U.Y.K. and N.D.L.

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**Who acts:** Pusat Tasek · **What happens:** go, lie · **To what, where:** P ’s, track

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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 (Pusat Tasek), 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:pg2781:11:152
# text = CHINA-GOING P’s and O’s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.’s. U.Y.K. and N.D.L.
1	CHINA	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	GOING	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	P	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
13	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
21	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	B.I	B.I	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	s.	s.	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	3	advmod	_	_
30	U.Y.K	U.Y.K	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	N.D.L	N.D.L	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  | P ’s |  |  |  | close *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location '=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present | Pau's Pusat Tasek |  |  | the track of most B.I |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near track=Location |

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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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