Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 123

‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘it is I, for you have spoken a second word in my praise, and now I can sit by the warm fire at the back of the Cave for always and always and always.

Who acts: Enemy, puff, I, my · What happens: say, be, speak, sit, praise · To what, where: Cat, I, back · 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, puff, 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	32 word	det
31	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 word	amod
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spoken	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 praise	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 praise	nmod:poss
35	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 word	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sit	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sit	cc
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 sit	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 sit	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 sit	aux
41	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 spoken	conj
42	by	by	ADP	_	45 fire	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fire	det
44	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 fire	amod
45	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sit	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 back	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 back	det
48	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sit	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 Cave	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Cave	det
51	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 back	nmod
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 always	case
53	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 sit	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 always	cc
55	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	53 always	conj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 always	cc
57	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	53 always	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	puff	I				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	present · perfect · passive		I				tree rules
4	sit	can	I		the back of the Cave	now	by the warm fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
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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