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title: And Pau Amma, deep down below, answered, ‘Once a day and once a nigh… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And Pau Amma, deep down below, answered, ‘Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food. Who acts: Pau, I. 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 67

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And Pau Amma, deep down below, answered, ‘Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food.

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**Who acts:** Pau, I · **What happens:** answer, go out, look

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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 (Pau, I), 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:pg2781:11:67
# text = And Pau Amma, deep down below, answered, ‘Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	below	below	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Pau |  |  |  |  | below, once *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go out** | present | I |  |  |  | night | once, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for my food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme |

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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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