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title: There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma--for he was the Kin… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma--for he was the King Crab of all Crabs. Who acts: Pau. 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 77

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There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma--for he was the King Crab of all Crabs.

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**Who acts:** Pau · **What happens:** be

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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), 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:pg2781:11:77
# text = There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma--for he was the King Crab of all Crabs.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	Crabs	Crab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Pau; big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Pau |  |  |  |  | for the Crab; of all Crabs; King *nmod:desc* | 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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