Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 60

And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Horse any more, but the First Servant, because he will carry us from place to place for always and always and always.

Who acts: Woman, name, Horse · What happens: say, ‘, not be, carry, name · To what, where: First Servant, Wild Horse, us, place · 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, 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	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 Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
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 Horse	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Horse	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 Horse	advmod
11	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Horse	amod
12	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ‘	ccomp
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Servant	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 Servant	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Servant	det
18	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 Servant	amod
19	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 carry	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 carry	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carry	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 carry	aux
24	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 carry	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 place	case
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carry	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 place	case
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carry	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 always	case
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 carry	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 always	cc
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 always	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 always	cc
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 always	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Woman	the First Servant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	‘	past	the Woman not said here				tree rules
3	not is a	present	Horse's name	Wild Horse			tree rules
4	carry	future	Horse	us	place	to place	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme from place=Initial_Location to place=Destination
5	name		Horse				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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