Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 9

‘It was Mummy and the other Neolithic ladies--and the mud.’

Who acts: hair · What happens: be · To what, where: Mummy

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 (hair), 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	_	4 Mummy	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Mummy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Mummy	cop
4	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ladies	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladies	amod
8	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladies	amod
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Mummy	conj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 mud	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mud	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mud	det
13	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Mummy	appos
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 mud	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 mud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hair	Mummy and the other Neolithic ladies					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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