Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 67

Cat said, ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, where did Wild Cow go?’

Who acts: Cat, Wild Cow · What happens: say, go · 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 (Cat, Wild Cow), 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	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Enemy	punct
5	O	o	INTJ	_	7 Enemy	discourse
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Enemy	nmod:poss
7	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Wife	cc
9	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Enemy	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Enemy	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Enemy	nmod:poss
12	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Wife	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 go	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
16	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Cow	amod
17	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Enemy	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go	past · do-support	Wild Cow						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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