Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 14

Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, ‘O my Friends and O my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that great Cave, and what harm will it do us?’

Who acts: Wild Horse, Woman, harm · What happens: stamp, say, have, make, do · To what, where: Man, great light, great Cave, us · 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 (Wild Horse, Woman, harm), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stamped	advmod
2	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Horse	amod
3	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stamped	nsubj
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 foot	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 foot	nmod:poss
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 foot	amod
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stamped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stamped	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Friends	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Friends	punct
13	O	o	INTJ	_	15 Friends	discourse
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Friends	nmod:poss
15	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Enemies	cc
17	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	19 Enemies	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Enemies	nmod:poss
19	Enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Friends	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Friends	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Man	det
24	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Woman	det
27	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 have	conj
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 light	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 light	amod
31	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 Cave	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 Cave	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Cave	amod
35	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 what	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 what	cc
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stamped	parataxis
39	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 do	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 do	nsubj
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 what	acl:relcl
43	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 do	iobj
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	42 do	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	past	Wild Horse				then	with Horse's wild foot	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Wild Horse not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	infinitive		the Man					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	make	past	the Woman	that great light		that great Cave			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product
5	do	future	harm		us				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality

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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