Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 56
The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part?
Who acts: end part, we · What happens: be, do · To what, where: carp fish mouth
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 (end part, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | compound |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mouth | cop |
| 5 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 11 mouth | discourse |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ah | punct |
| 7 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 carp | punct |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouth | punct |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mouth | acl:relcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 part | det |
| 20 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 part | amod |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the end part | carp fish mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | can | we | carp fish mouth | about the front part | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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