--- title: Shall I send for Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, to pi… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Shall I send for Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, to pierce you with his tusks, or shall I call Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, to bite you?’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea, with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/) / 87 # Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 87 Shall I send for Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, to pierce you with his tusks, or shall I call Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, to bite you?’ **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send, pierce, call, bite · **To what, where:** you, Raja · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I), 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:pg2781:11:87 # text = Shall I send for Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, to pierce you with his tusks, or shall I call Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, to bite you?’ 1 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Moyang Moyang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 Kaban Kaban PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Elephants Elephant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 pierce pierce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 26 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 Abdullah Abdullah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Crocodiles Crocodile PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | shall | I | | | | | for Raja Moyang | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pierce** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | with Elephant's tusks | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with tusk=Instrument | | 3 | **call** | shall | I | | Raja | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent raja=Recipient | | 4 | **bite** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/88/) - ↑ back to [The Crab That Played With the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/11/)