Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 127
‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘is that little mouse part of your magic?’
Who acts: Enemy, ‘ · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Cat, mouse part · 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, ‘), 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 | _ | 26 part | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 part | cop |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 part | mark |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mouse | amod |
| 25 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | compound |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 magic | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 magic | nmod:poss |
| 29 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 part | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | ‘ | mouse part | of your magic | 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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