Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 38

And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.

Who acts: Woman, name, Dog · What happens: say, ‘, not be, be, name · To what, where: Wild Dog, friend · 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 (Woman, name, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woman	det
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ‘	punct
6	‘	‘	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Dog	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Dog	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 Dog	advmod
11	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Dog	amod
12	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ‘	ccomp
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 ‘	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Friend	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 Friend	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Friend	det
18	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 Friend	amod
19	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 friend	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 friend	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 friend	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 friend	cop
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friend	nmod:poss
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 always	case
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 friend	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 always	cc
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 always	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 always	cc
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 always	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	‘	past			tree rules
3	not is a	present	Dog's name	Wild Dog	tree rules
4	is a	future	Dog	our friend	tree rules
5	name		Dog		nom name «communication transitive»: 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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