Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 104
You know I can’t do it, and now she’ll never believe a word I say.
Who acts: You, I, Balkis · What happens: know, not do, not believe, say · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, Balkis), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 believe | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 believe | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | ’ll | 'll | ADV | _ | 14 believe | advmod |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 believe | advmod |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 believe | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 word | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not do | can | I | word | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not believe | infinitive | Balkis | a word | now | 'll property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | I | a word not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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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