Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 62

‘No. If they’re joined, I’ll forget.

Who acts: perches, I · What happens: be, join, forget · To what, where: No.

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 (perches, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 No.	punct
2	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	root	root
3	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 ’re	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ’re	nsubj
5	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	advcl
6	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ’re	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ’re	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 forget	nsubj
9	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 No.	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 No.	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	does a condition, not said to happen	present	perches = perch		tree rules
2	join	participle	perches = perch not said here		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	forget	future	I	No. not said here	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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