Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 84
If ever I say one word in your praise you may come into the Cave.’
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: say, come, praise · To what, where: one word, praise · 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 (I, you, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 say | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 word | nummod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 praise | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 praise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 Cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cave | det |
| 15 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | I | one word | ever | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | come | may | you | your praise | into the Cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | praise | your | nom praise «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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