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title: When you go out from your cave the waters of the Sea pour down into… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When you go out from your cave the waters of the Sea pour down into Pusat Tasek, and all the beaches of all the islands are left bare, and the little fish die, and Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, his legs are made muddy. Who acts: you, waters, little fish. A sentence of «Just so storie
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 71

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When you go out from your cave the waters of the Sea pour down into Pusat Tasek, and all the beaches of all the islands are left bare, and the little fish die, and Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, his legs are made muddy.

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**Who acts:** you, waters, little fish · **What happens:** go out, pour down, leave, die, make · **To what, where:** cave, Pusat, beaches, Raja Moyang

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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, waters, little fish), 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:pg2781:11:71
# text = When you go out from your cave the waters of the Sea pour down into Pusat Tasek, and all the beaches of all the islands are left bare, and the little fish die, and Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, his legs are made muddy.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
29	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
38	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Moyang	Moyang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	Kaban	Kaban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	parataxis	_	_
52	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | present | you |  |  | your cave |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pour down** | present | the waters of the Sea |  |  | Pusat |  | down *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pusat=Location |
| 3 | **leave** | present · passive |  | all beaches of all islands |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | present | the little fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **make** | present · passive |  | Raja Moyang |  |  |  | muddy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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