Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 158

‘Not when I am near,’ said the Dog.

Who acts: I · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: Dog · 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 (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	_	9 said	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 near	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 near	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 near	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 near	cop
6	near	near	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 near	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 near	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dog	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	I					near property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the Dog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic

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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