Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 28

Wild Dog gnawed the bone, and it was more delicious than anything he had ever tasted, and he said, ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, give me another.’

Who acts: Wild Dog, smell, Dog, Enemy · What happens: gnaw, be, taste, say, give · To what, where: bone, another, me · 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 (Wild Dog, smell, Dog, Enemy), 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	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	2 Dog	flat
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	3 gnawed	nsubj
3	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bone	det
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gnawed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 delicious	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 delicious	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 delicious	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 delicious	cop
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 delicious	advmod
11	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gnawed	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 anything	case
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 delicious	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tasted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tasted	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 tasted	advmod
17	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 anything	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gnawed	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Enemy	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Enemy	punct
24	O	o	INTJ	_	26 Enemy	discourse
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 Enemy	nmod:poss
26	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 give	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Wife	cc
28	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Enemy	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Enemy	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 Enemy	nmod:poss
31	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Wife	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Enemy	punct
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 give	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gnawed	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gnawed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gnaw	past	Wild Dog	the bone				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	is	past	smell				than anything; delicious property	tree rules
3	taste	past · perfect	Dog			ever		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	Dog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive	my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy	another	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient another=Theme

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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