Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 299
OF all the Tribe of Tegumai Who cut that figure, none remain,-- On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry The silence and the sun remain.
Who acts: none, cuckoos · What happens: cut, remain, cry · To what, where: figure, Merrow, silence
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 (none, cuckoos), 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 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 4 Tribe | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Tribe | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tribe | det |
| 4 | Tribe | Tribe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Tegumai | case |
| 6 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tribe | nmod |
| 7 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 figure | det |
| 10 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remain | punct |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 remain | nsubj |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Merrow | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Merrow | punct |
| 16 | On | on | ADP | _ | 17 Merrow | case |
| 17 | Merrow | Merrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 remain | obl |
| 18 | Down | down | ADP | _ | 21 cry | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cuckoos | det |
| 20 | cuckoos | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cry | nsubj |
| 21 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 remain | advcl |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 silence | det |
| 23 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cry | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sun | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun | det |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 silence | conj |
| 27 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cry | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | that figure | of all Tribe of Tegumai | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent figure=Patient of tribe=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | none | Merrow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on merrow=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | the cuckoos | the silence and the sun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remain | present | the cuckoos not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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