Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 50
Wild Horse said, ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, where is Wild Dog?’
Who acts: Wild Horse · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Wild 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 (Wild Horse), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Horse | amod |
| 2 | Horse | Horse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Enemy | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 Enemy | discourse |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Enemy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Enemy | Enemy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Wife | cc |
| 10 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Enemy | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Enemy | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Enemy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Enemy | Enemy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wife | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dog | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 Dog | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Dog | cop |
| 17 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 18 Dog | flat |
| 18 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Enemy | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Enemy | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Enemy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wild Horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Wild Horse not said here | Wild Dog | tree rules |
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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