Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 277

‘That’s enough for to-day,’ said Tegumai.

Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: say · 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	_	3 ’s	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ’s	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 ’s	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tegumai						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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