Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 280

We’ll finish it all to-morrow, and then we’ll be remembered for years and years after the biggest trees you can see are all chopped up for firewood.’

Who acts: We, you · What happens: finish, remember, see, chop up · To what, where: space, we, biggest trees

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, you), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 finish	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 finish	aux
3	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finish	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 it	det
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 morrow	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finish	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remembered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remembered	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 remembered	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 remembered	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 remembered	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 remembered	aux:pass
15	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 finish	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 chopped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 years	cc
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 years	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
22	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 trees	amod
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 years	nmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 trees	acl:relcl
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 chopped	aux:pass
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 chopped	advmod
29	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 remembered	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 chopped	compound:prt
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 firewood	case
32	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chopped	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finish	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 finish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	finish	future	We	space		to morrow	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
2	remember	future · passive		we	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
3	see	can	you	the biggest trees not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	chop up	present · passive			year	for firewood; all property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»

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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