Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 241

‘Then I’d have drawn your spear all broken--this way!’

Who acts: I · What happens: draw, break · To what, where: spear

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), 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	_	6 drawn	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 drawn	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 drawn	nsubj
4	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drawn	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 drawn	aux
6	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 spear	nmod:poss
8	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawn	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 broken	advmod
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 drawn	advcl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawn	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	would · perfect	I	your spear			then	this way obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
2	break	participle	I not said here					all property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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