Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 126
‘Not yet,’ said Tegumai; ‘not till we’ve gone a little further.
Who acts: Tegumai, we · What happens: say, not go · 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 (Tegumai, we), 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 | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 yet | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gone | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 gone | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 gone | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 little | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 further | obl |
| 17 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 gone | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tegumai | yet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not go | present · perfect | we | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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