Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 121

‘But I needn’t be near the water at all.

Who acts: I · What happens: need, not be · To what, where: water

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), 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	_	4 need	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 need	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 water	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 water	cop
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 water	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	not is	infinitive				the water		at all	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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