--- title: And the Eldest Magician said, ‘I cannot make you play the play you w… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: And the Eldest Magician said, ‘I cannot make you play the play you were meant to play, Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning; but if you are not afraid, come up and we will talk about it.’ Who acts: Eldest Magician, I, you, we. 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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 (Eldest Magician, I, you, we), 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:pg2781:11:75 # text = And the Eldest Magician said, ‘I cannot make you play the play you were meant to play, Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning; but if you are not afraid, come up and we will talk about it.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 Magician Magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 Beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 42 up up ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 47 about about ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Eldest Magician | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **make** | can | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the play | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | past · passive | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | Pau | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pau=Theme | | 6 | **escape** | past | you | me | | | at the Beginning | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **come up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **talk** | future | we | | | | | about rise | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/76/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)