Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 270
‘Now, we’ve got it,’ said Tegumai, standing on one leg.
Who acts: we, Tegumai · What happens: have, get, say, stand · To what, where: two, one leg · 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 (we, 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 | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ’ve | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’ve | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ’ve | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | advcl |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | 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 | _ | 13 standing | punct |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 leg | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 leg | nummod |
| 16 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Tegumai not said here | two | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tegumai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | Tegumai not said here | one leg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
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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