Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 137

‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy, said the Cat, ‘it is I; for you have spoken three words in my praise, and now I can drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and always.

Who acts: Enemy, ffft, you, I, my · What happens: say, be, speak, drink, praise · To what, where: Cat, I, three words, praise, warm white milk · 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, ffft, you, I), 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	16 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	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Cat	det
18	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 I	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 I	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 I	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 I	cop
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Cat	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 spoken	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 spoken	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 spoken	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spoken	aux
28	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	parataxis
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 words	nummod
30	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spoken	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 praise	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 praise	nmod:poss
33	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoken	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 drink	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 drink	cc
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 drink	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 drink	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 drink	aux
39	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 spoken	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 milk	det
41	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 milk	amod
42	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 milk	amod
43	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drink	obj
44	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 times	nummod
45	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drink	obl:unmarked
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 day	det
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 times	nmod:unmarked
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 always	case
49	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	39 drink	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 always	cc
51	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	49 always	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 always	cc
53	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	49 always	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	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	ffft	I			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	present · perfect	you	three words	my praise		tree rules
4	drink	can	I	the warm white milk		now; time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
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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