Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 266
‘I’ll only put in one,’ said Tegumai.
Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: put, say · To what, where: I · 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 (Tegumai), 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 | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ’ll | 'll | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | I | in one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tegumai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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