Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 159

‘If you had not said that last I would have shut my mouth for always and always and always; but now I am going to hunt you up a tree whenever I meet you.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not say, shut, go, hunt up, meet · To what, where: mouth, you · 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 (you, 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	_	12 shut	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 said	advmod
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 shut	advcl
7	that	that	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 shut	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shut	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 shut	aux
12	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shut	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 always	case
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 shut	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 always	cc
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 always	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 always	cc
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 always	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 going	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 going	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 shut	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hunt	mark
28	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 going	xcomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 hunt	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 hunt	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tree	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hunt	obj
33	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 hunt	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 meet	nsubj
35	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 whenever	advcl:relcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 meet	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you			that last	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	shut	would · perfect	I	my mouth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
3	go	present · progressive	I		now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hunt up	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		whenever property	tree rules
5	meet	present	I	you			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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