Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 222
‘Just attend a minute, Taffy, and we won’t do any more to-day.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: attend, not do
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, 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 | _ | 3 attend | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 attend | advmod |
| 3 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minute | det |
| 5 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attend | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Taffy | punct |
| 7 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 attend | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 11 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attend | conj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 to | punct |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | imperative | you not said here | minute | Taffy vocative | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not do | future | we | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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