Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 133
If you saw that scratched on a tree you’d know it was time to come to the Cave.
Who acts: you, dinner · What happens: see, scratch, have, know, be, come · To what, where: tree, time, Cave · 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 (you, dinner), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 saw | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 scratched | mark |
| 5 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scratched | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ’d | nsubj |
| 10 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ’d | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Cave | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cave | det |
| 19 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | scratch | participle | you not said here | a tree | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | you | a tree not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | dinner | time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location |
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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