Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 69
Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a servant.
Who acts: Cat, I · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: friend, servant · 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, I), 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 | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 friend | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 friend | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 servant | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 servant | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 servant | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 servant | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 servant | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 servant | det |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | 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 | not is a | present | I | a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | I | a servant | 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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