Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 298
And it was so--just so--a little time ago--on the banks of the big Wagai!
Who acts: Many · What happens: be · To what, where: banks
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 (Many), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ago | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ago | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ago | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 ago | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 so | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 ago | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 ago | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 ago | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 banks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 banks | det |
| 16 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Wagai | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wagai | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Wagai | amod |
| 20 | Wagai | Wagai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 banks | nmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 ago | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Many | the banks of the big Wagai | time | ago property | tree rules |
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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