Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 217

‘Shu-ya-las, ya maru.

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: 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	_	6 las	punct
2	Shu	shu	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 las	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Shu	punct
4	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 las	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 las	punct
6	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 las	punct
8	ya	ya	X	ExtPos=PROPN	6 las	appos
9	maru	maru	X	Foreign=Yes	8 ya	flat
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 las	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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