Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 15

(He had his mummy’s leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.)

Who acts: sea · What happens: have, paddle, not do, be · To what, where: leave, man

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 (sea), 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	_	3 had	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mummy	nmod:poss
5	mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 mummy	case
7	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 paddle	mark
9	paddle	paddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leave	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 done	cc
12	else	else	ADV	_	17 done	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 done	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 done	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 done	aux
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 paddle	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 done	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 man	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 resource	case
26	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 resource	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 infinite	punct
28	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	nmod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 sagacity	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sagacity	cc
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 and	punct
32	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 resource	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	sea	sea's mummy's leave		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient
2	paddle	to-infinitive	sea not said here	sea's mummy's leave not said here		tree rules
3	not do	would · perfect	sea	leave	else property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	is a	past	sea	a man	of infinite resource and sagacity	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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