Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 209

‘S’pose you went out before I was awake, and drawed shu-ya in the smoke on the wall, I’d know it was going to rain and I’d take my beaver-skin hood.

Who acts: you, I, wall · What happens: s'pose, go out, be, drawe, have, know · To what, where: shu ya, smoke, rain, skin hood · 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 (you, I, wall), 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 S’pose	punct
2	S’pose	s'pose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 S’pose	ccomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 awake	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 awake	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	cop
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ya	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ya	cc
12	drawed	drawe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 shu	amod
13	shu	shu	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ya	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 shu	punct
15	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 S’pose	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 smoke	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 smoke	det
18	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 S’pose	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smoke	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ’d	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ’d	nsubj
24	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 S’pose	parataxis
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ’d	ccomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 going	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 know	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 rain	mark
30	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 going	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 take	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 take	nsubj
33	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ’d	conj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hood	nmod:poss
36	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 skin	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 beaver	punct
38	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hood	compound
39	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 S’pose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	s'pose	imperative	you not said here	shu ya	the smoke on the wall		tree rules
2	go out	past	you			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	I			awake property	tree rules
4	drawe	participle					tree rules
5	have	past	I				tree rules
6	know	infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	go	past · progressive	wall	rain			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take	would	I	my skin hood			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=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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