Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 128
Yo is bad water, but So is food cooked on the fire, isn’t it?’
Who acts: Yo · What happens: be, cook · To what, where: bad water, food
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 (Yo), 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 | Yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 water | cop |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 food | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 food | cc |
| 7 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 food | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 food | cop |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | conj |
| 10 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 food | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cooked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 n’t | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 n’t | cop |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 water | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 n’t | nsubj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Yo | bad water but food | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Yo not said here | food | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cook | participle | food not said here | on the fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on fire=Instrument |
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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