Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 297

But I remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and Taffimai Metallumai and Teshumai Tewindrow, her dear Mummy, and all the days gone by.

Who acts: I, Taffimai · What happens: remember, go by · To what, where: Tegumai

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 (I, Taffimai), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 remember	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obj
5	Bopsulai	Bopsulai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tegumai	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gone	cc
8	Taffimai	Taffimai	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 gone	nsubj
9	Metallumai	Metallumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Taffimai	flat
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Teshumai	cc
11	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Taffimai	conj
12	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Teshumai	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Mummy	punct
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Mummy	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Mummy	amod
16	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Taffimai	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gone	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 days	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 days	det
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gone	nsubj
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 Tegumai	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	22 gone	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I	Tegumai					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tegumai=Theme
2	go by	participle	Taffimai and Teshumai	Tegumai not said here					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tegumai=Theme

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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