--- title: When you come back and sit in Pusat Tasek, the waters of the Sea ris… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: When you come back and sit in Pusat Tasek, the waters of the Sea rise, and half the little islands are drowned, and the Man’s house is flooded, and Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, his mouth is filled with the salt water. Who acts: you. 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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. **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:pg2781:11:72 # text = When you come back and sit in Pusat Tasek, the waters of the Sea rise, and half the little islands are drowned, and the Man’s house is flooded, and Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, his mouth is filled with the salt water. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Pusat Pusat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Tasek Tasek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 22 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 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 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 35 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 36 Abdullah Abdullah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Crocodiles Crocodile PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | you | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | you *not said here* | | | Pusat Tasek and the waters of the Sea rise | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tasek=Location | | 3 | **drown** | present · passive | | half little islands | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **flood** | present · passive | | the Man's house | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **fill** | present · passive | | Raja | | | | with the salt water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/73/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)