Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 106
I believe we’ve found out the big secret of the world.’
Who acts: I, we · What happens: believe, find out · To what, where: big secret · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 secret | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 secret | amod |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 secret | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | find out | present · perfect | we | the big secret of the world | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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.
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