Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 99
If he had not taken up your attention I should not have grown tired of waiting and run away, and all this would never have happened.
Who acts: Man, I, this, your · What happens: not take up, not grow, wait, run away, not happen, attend · To what, where: attention
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, I, this, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 taken | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 taken | compound:prt |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 attention | nmod:poss |
| 8 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 grown | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grown | aux |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 taken | conj |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grown | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 waiting | mark |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 tired | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 run | cc |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 waiting | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 run | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 happened | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 happened | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 happened | det:predet |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 happened | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 happened | advmod |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 happened | aux |
| 27 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 taken | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take up | past · perfect | Man | your attention | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not grow | should · perfect | I | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run away | present | I not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not happen | would · perfect | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | attend | your | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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