Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 3
It is not the story of the Lapwing who found the Water; or the Hoopoe who shaded Suleimanbin-Daoud from the heat.
Who acts: story, Lapwing, Hoopoe · What happens: not be, find, shade · To what, where: story, Water, Suleimanbin Daoud
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 (story, Lapwing, Hoopoe), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 story | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lapwing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lapwing | det |
| 8 | Lapwing | lapwing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Lapwing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Water | det |
| 12 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hoopoe | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 Hoopoe | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hoopoe | det |
| 16 | Hoopoe | hoopoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shaded | nsubj |
| 18 | shaded | shade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Hoopoe | acl:relcl |
| 19 | Suleimanbin | Suleimanbin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Daoud | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Suleimanbin | punct |
| 21 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shaded | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 heat | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 heat | det |
| 24 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaded | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | story | the story | of the Lapwing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past | the Lapwing | the Water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shade | past | the Hoopoe | Suleimanbin Daoud | from the heat | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent daoud=Beneficiary from heat=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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