Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 120

‘’Course I wouldn’t drink that water because I’d know you said it was bad.’

Who acts: Course, I, you · What happens: not drink, have, know, say, be · To what, where: water · 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 (Course, I, 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	_	6 drink	punct
2	Course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 drink	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 drink	advmod
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 ’d	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ’d	nsubj
11	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	advcl
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ’d	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bad	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bad	cop
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not drink	would	Course	that water		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	have	past	I			tree rules
3	know	infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	course		bad property	tree rules

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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