Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 228
‘I know it, but we have to make la-la.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: know, have, make · To what, where: tooth, la
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 (I, 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 la | punct |
| 13 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 la | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | tooth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | we not said here | la | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset la=Product |
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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