Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 144
Then he took off his two leather boots and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five altogether), and he set them out in a row and he said, ‘Now we will make our bargain.
Who acts: Man, little stone axe, that, we, our · What happens: take off, take up, make, fetch, be, set out · To what, where: two leather boots, little stone axe, three, piece, five, pieces · 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, little stone axe, that, we), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 boots | nmod:poss |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 boots | nummod |
| 7 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boots | compound |
| 8 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 axe | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 axe | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 axe | compound |
| 16 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 axe | acl:relcl |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 makes | obj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fetched | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fetched | nsubj |
| 24 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 piece | det |
| 26 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fetched | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piece | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hatchet | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hatchet | det |
| 31 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piece | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 five | punct |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 five | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 five | cop |
| 35 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 hatchet | parataxis |
| 36 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 35 five | advmod |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 five | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 set | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 set | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 set | nsubj |
| 41 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 set | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 set | compound:prt |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 row | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 row | det |
| 46 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 set | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 said | cc |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 said | nsubj |
| 49 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 make | punct |
| 51 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 55 make | punct |
| 52 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 make | advmod |
| 53 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 make | nsubj |
| 54 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 make | aux |
| 55 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 said | ccomp |
| 56 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 57 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 make | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Man | Man's two leather boots | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | |||
| 2 | take up | past | Man | Man's little stone axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Man's little stone axe | three | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset three=Product | ||||
| 4 | fetch | past | Man | a piece of wood and a hatchet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | that | five | altogether property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | set out | past | Man | pieces = piece | a row | tree rules | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | make | future | we | our bargain | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product | |||
| 9 | bargain | our | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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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