Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 111

‘What is bad water that gives you fever if you drink it--black water--swamp-water?’

Who acts: bad water, you · What happens: be, give, drink · To what, where: bad water, fever, you

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 (bad water, you), 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	_	5 water	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 water	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 water	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gives	nsubj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 water	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 gives	iobj
9	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 drink	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 drink	nsubj
12	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gives	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drink	obj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 water	punct
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swamp	compound
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 water	punct
18	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 water	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 swamp	punct
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 water	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present		bad water		tree rules
2	give	present	bad water	fever	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient fever=Theme
3	drink a condition, not said to happen	present	you	fever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

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