Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 175
‘We must make a new picture for that end sound, mustn’t we?’
Who acts: We · What happens: make · To what, where: new picture
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 (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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 picture | amod |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sound | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sound | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | compound |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picture | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 must | punct |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 must | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 must | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | We | a new picture | for that end sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent picture=Product for sound=Asset |
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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