Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 215

‘S’pose I wanted to tell you it wasn’t going to rain much and you must come down to the river, what would we draw?

Who acts: S’pose, noise, you, we · What happens: want, tell, not go, come down, draw · To what, where: you, rain, river · 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 (S’pose, noise, you, 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 wanted	punct
2	S’pose	s'pose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 going	advmod
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tell	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rain	mark
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	xcomp
14	much	much	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 draw	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 draw	obj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 draw	aux
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 draw	nsubj
27	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 river	acl:relcl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	S’pose					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	S’pose not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not go	past · progressive	noise	rain				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come down	must	you			the river	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
5	draw	would	we	the river				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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