Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 26

Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and I’ll think about it.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, think · To what, where: me, natal shore

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 (you, I), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 shore	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shore	nmod:poss
5	natal	natal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shore	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 natal	punct
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cliffs	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cliffs	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cliffs	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 white	punct
12	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shore	conj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Albion	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Albion	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 of	punct
16	Albion	Albion	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cliffs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 think	aux
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 think	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	me		my natal shore and the white cliffs of Albion			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to shore=Destination
2	think speech: other	future	I					about throat	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=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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