Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 225
La-la-la’ and he waved his shark-tooth.
Who acts: La · What happens: wave · To what, where: shark tooth
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 (La), 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 | La | La | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 waved | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 La | punct |
| 3 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 La | flat:foreign |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 la | punct |
| 5 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 La | flat:foreign |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 la | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waved | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 waved | nsubj |
| 9 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tooth | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 shark | punct |
| 13 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waved | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | La | river's shark tooth | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
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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