Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 195
If you can, we’ve found the Secret.’
Who acts: we · What happens: have, find · To what, where: Secret
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 can | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ’ve | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 can | acl:relcl |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Secret | det |
| 9 | Secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the Secret | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
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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