Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 139

SO means “come and have dinner,” but sho means the drying-poles where we hang our hides.’

Who acts: sho, we · What happens: mean, come, have, hang · To what, where: dinner, drying poles, hides · 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 (sho, 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	SO	so	ADV	_	2 means	advmod
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 means	cc
11	sho	sho	NOUN	_	12 means	nsubj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 poles	det
14	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poles	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 drying	punct
16	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 means	obj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 hang	advmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hang	nsubj
19	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 poles	acl:relcl
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hides	nmod:poss
21	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hang	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	present		dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
4	mean	present	sho	the drying poles	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Topic
5	hang	present	we	our hides	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient

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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