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title: ‘Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up the Perak river and dri… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up the Perak river and drives the sweet-water back into the forest, so that my house is made wet; once a day and once a night it runs down the river and draws all the water after it, so that there is nothing left but mud, and my canoe is upset. Who acts: Sea
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 34

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‘Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up the Perak river and drives the sweet-water back into the forest, so that my house is made wet; once a day and once a night it runs down the river and draws all the water after it, so that there is nothing left but mud, and my canoe is upset.

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**Who acts:** Sea, house, nothing, canoe · **What happens:** run up, drive, make, run down, draw, be · **To what, where:** Perak river, sweet water, forest, house, river, water

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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 (Sea, house, nothing, canoe), 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:pg2781:11:34
# text = ‘Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up the Perak river and drives the sweet-water back into the forest, so that my house is made wet; once a day and once a night it runs down the river and draws all the water after it, so that there is nothing left but mud, and my canoe is upset.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Perak	Perak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
33	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	43	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	35	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
44	down	down	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	after	after	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	58	mark	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	fixed	_	_
57	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	58	expl	_	_
58	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
59	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	58	nsubj	_	_
60	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	acl	_	_
61	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
65	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nsubj	_	_
67	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
68	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | present | the Sea | the Perak river |  |  |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory |
| 2 | **drive** | present | the Sea *not said here* | the sweet water |  | the forest |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme into forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | my house |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **run down** | present | house | the river |  |  | night | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location river=Theme |
| 5 | **draw** | present | house *not said here* | all water |  |  | after house |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | my canoe |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |

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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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