Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 57
Yer-yer-yer and ah!
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: 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 | Yer | Yer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 yer | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yer | punct |
| 3 | yer | yer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yer | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 yer | punct |
| 5 | yer | yer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ah | cc |
| 7 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 yer | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 yer | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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