Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 72

‘’Member I can’t draw like you, Daddy.

Who acts: I · What happens: not draw

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 (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	_	6 draw	punct
2	Member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	compound
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 draw	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 draw	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 draw	advmod
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 draw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Daddy	punct
10	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 draw	vocative
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not draw	can	I					like you; Daddy vocative	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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