Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 194
‘Try if you can make out what that means in the Tegumai language.
Who acts: you, that · What happens: try, make out, mean
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, that), 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 | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 2 | Try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Try | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 make | compound:prt |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 means | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 language | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 language | det |
| 13 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 language | compound |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make out a condition, not said to happen | can | you | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | that | in the Tegumai language | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in language=Attribute |
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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