Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 71

Woman said, ‘Then why did you not come with First Friend on the first night?’

Who acts: Woman, you · What happens: say, not come · 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, 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	Woman	woman	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	_	6 why	punct
5	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 why	advmod
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 said	conj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 why	advcl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 did	parataxis
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 Friend	case
12	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 Friend	amod
13	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not come	present	you				night	with First Friend	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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