Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 143

Then the Man said, ‘Yes, but he has not made a bargain with me or with all proper Men after me.’

Who acts: Man · What happens: say, not make · To what, where: bargain · 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 (Man), 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 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Yes	punct
7	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bargain	det
15	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bargain	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 Men	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 Men	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 Men	det
21	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Men	amod
22	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bargain	conj
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Men	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Man				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	not make	present · perfect	Man	a bargain or all proper Men after me				with me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product

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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