Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 39

Take him with you when you go hunting.’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, go, hunt · To what, where: Dog

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), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	advcl
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 go	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	Dog	with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	go	present	you			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hunt	gerund	you not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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