Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 206
Shu-ya means rain, or “it is going to rain.”
Who acts: Shu ya, rain · What happens: mean, go · To what, where: rain · 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 (Shu ya, rain), 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 | Shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ya | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shu | punct |
| 3 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 going | cc |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 means | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rain | mark |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Shu ya | rain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | rain | rain | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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