Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 223
We’ve got shu-ya all right, haven’t we?
Who acts: We · What happens: get, not have · To what, where: shu ya
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ya | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 shu | punct |
| 6 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 right | advmod |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ya | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 have | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | We | shu ya | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ya=Beneficiary we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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