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title: I am so big that I can only hide in Pusat Tasek, and if I go anywher… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: I am so big that I can only hide in Pusat Tasek, and if I go anywhere else, all soft as I am now, the sharks and the dogfish will eat me. Who acts: I, sharks. 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 c
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 92

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I am so big that I can only hide in Pusat Tasek, and if I go anywhere else, all soft as I am now, the sharks and the dogfish will eat me.

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**Who acts:** I, sharks · **What happens:** be, hide, go, eat · **To what, where:** Pusat, me

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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 (I, sharks), 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:pg2781:11:92
# text = I am so big that I can only hide in Pusat Tasek, and if I go anywhere else, all soft as I am now, the sharks and the dogfish will eat me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dogfish	dogfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | can | I |  |  | Pusat |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pusat=Location |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | future | the sharks and the dogfish | me |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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