Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 74
Your are neither a friend nor a servant.
What happens: be · To what, where: friend
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: 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 3 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 friend | cc:preconj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 servant | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 servant | det |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your friend nor 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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