Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 238

La!’ said Tegumai, waiving his stick and frowning.

Who acts: La · What happens: say, waive · To what, where: stick · Speech: someone speaks here

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	4 said	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 La	punct
3	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 La	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 waiving	punct
7	waiving	waive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stick	nmod:poss
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waiving	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frowning	cc
11	frowning	frowning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	La						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	waive	gerund	La not said here	river's stick and frowning					tree rules

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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