Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 111

‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘it is I: for you have spoken a word in my praise, and now I can sit within the Cave for always and always and always.

Who acts: Enemy, whoosh, I, my · What happens: say, be, speak, sit, praise · To what, where: Cat, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enemy, whoosh, I, my), 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 Enemy	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	4 Enemy	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Enemy	nmod:poss
4	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Wife	cc
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Enemy	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Enemy	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Enemy	nmod:poss
9	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wife	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Mother	cc
11	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Enemy	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Enemy	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Enemy	nmod:poss
14	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mother	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Enemy	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Enemy	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cat	det
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 I	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 I	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 I	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 I	cop
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 spoken	nsubj:pass
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 spoken	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 spoken	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 spoken	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 spoken	aux
29	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 word	det
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spoken	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 praise	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 praise	nmod:poss
34	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 word	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sit	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sit	cc
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 sit	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 sit	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 sit	aux
40	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 spoken	conj
41	within	within	ADP	_	43 Cave	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Cave	det
43	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sit	obl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 always	case
45	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 sit	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 always	cc
47	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 always	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 always	cc
49	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 always	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy	the Cat			tree rules
2	is a	present	whoosh	I			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	present · perfect · passive		I			tree rules
4	sit	can	I		now	within the Cave	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	praise		my				nom praise «communication transitive»: 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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