Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 229

And we’re the first people in all the world who’ve ever tried to do it, Taffimai!’

Who acts: we, first people · What happens: 're, try, do · To what, where: first people, world

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, first people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 ’re	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’re	nsubj
3	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ’re	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 world	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tried	nsubj
12	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tried	aux
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 tried	advmod
14	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 people	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Taffimai	punct
19	Taffimai	Taffimai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ’re	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 Taffimai	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	're	past	we	the first people	all world		tree rules
2	try	present · perfect	the first people			ever	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the first people not said here	world			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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