Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 110
‘Ya, of course, and it means river too--like Wagai-ya--the Wagai river.’
Who acts: course · What happens: mean · To what, where: Ya
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 (course), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ya | punct |
| 2 | Ya | Ya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 course | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ya | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 means | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 means | nsubj |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 means | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 ya | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 ya | case |
| 14 | Wagai | Wagai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ya | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Wagai | punct |
| 16 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 river | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 19 | Wagai | Wagai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 river | compound |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ya | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | course | Ya | like Wagai ya | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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