Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 84

We’ll have to scratch a round something like one.’

Who acts: We · What happens: have, scratch · To what, where: something

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 (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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scratch	mark
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 something	det
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 scratch	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 something	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	We						tree rules
2	scratch	to-infinitive	We not said here	something				like one	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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