Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 29

‘I ought to have warned you that he is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’

Who acts: Albion · What happens: warn, be · To what, where: you, man · 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 (Albion), 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	_	6 warned	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ought	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 warned	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 warned	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 warned	aux
6	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 warned	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 man	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 man	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warned	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	20 sagacity	case
14	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 resource	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 infinite	punct
16	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sagacity	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 sagacity	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sagacity	cc
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 warned	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	ought · perfect			you				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present	Albion	a man				of 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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