Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 152
He has not made a bargain with me or with all proper Dogs after me.’
Who acts: Dog · What happens: not make · To what, where: bargain
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 (Dog), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bargain | det |
| 6 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bargain | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Dogs | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Dogs | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Dogs | det |
| 12 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Dogs | amod |
| 13 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bargain | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Dogs | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · perfect | Dog | a bargain or all proper Dogs 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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