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title: Know Pau Amma’s home as well As the fisher of the Sea knows ‘Bens,’… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Know Pau Amma’s home as well As the fisher of the Sea knows ‘Bens,’ M.M. 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 153

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Know Pau Amma’s home as well As the fisher of the Sea knows ‘Bens,’ M.M.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** know · **To what, where:** home

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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:pg2781:11:153
# text = Know Pau Amma’s home as well As the fisher of the Sea knows ‘Bens,’ M.M.
1	Know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	1	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	As	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Bens	ben	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
19	M.M	M.M	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | imperative | you *not said here* | Pau's home |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the fisher; of the Sea; ‘ Bens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of sea=Stimulus |

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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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