Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 267
‘If this game of ours is going to be what I think it will, the easier we make our sound-pictures the better for everybody.’
Who acts: game, I, we · What happens: go, be, think, make · To what, where: sound pictures · 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 (game, 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 | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 game | det |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ours | case |
| 6 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 game | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 what | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 what | cop |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 easier | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 easier | aux |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 easier | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 easier | det |
| 18 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 think | ccomp |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 easier | ccomp |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pictures | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pictures | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sound | punct |
| 24 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 make | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 better | det |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 make | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 everybody | case |
| 28 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 better | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | this game of ours | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | present | we | our sound pictures | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=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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