Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 122

I might be miles away, hunting, and still--’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, hunt

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 away	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 away	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 away	cop
4	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 away	obl:unmarked
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hunting	punct
7	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 away	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 still	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 still	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	5 away	conj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 still	punct
12	’	'	SYM	_	5 away	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	I					miles obl:unmarked; away property	tree rules
2	hunt	gerund	I not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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