Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 12
‘One at a time is enough,’ said the ‘Stute Fish.
Who acts: One, enough · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, enough), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 enough | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 One | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 enough | cop |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 enough | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 enough | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fish | det |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stute | punct |
| 13 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fish | compound |
| 14 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One at a time | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | enough | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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