Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 303

For far--oh, very far behind, So far she cannot call to him, Comes Tegumai alone to find The daughter that was all to him.

Who acts: Unfearing, that · What happens: not call, find, be · To what, where: Merrow, daughter · 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 (Unfearing, that), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 far	case
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 call	advmod
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 far	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 behind	advmod
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
10	So	so	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 far	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 call	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 call	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 call	advmod
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 call	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Tegumai	punct
19	Comes	Comes	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Tegumai	compound
20	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 call	xcomp
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 Tegumai	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 call	advcl
24	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 daughter	det
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 him	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 him	cop
28	all	all	ADV	_	30 him	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 daughter	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not call	can	Unfearing		Merrow	far property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	find	to-infinitive	Unfearing not said here	the daughter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic
3	is	past	that			to Merrow; all 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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