Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 32
Then he recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate--
Who acts: Mariner, you, Sloka · What happens: recite, follow, not hear, proceed, relate · To what, where: Sloka, cross
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 (Mariner, you, Sloka), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 recited | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recited | nsubj |
| 3 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 following | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 recited | obj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sloka | punct |
| 7 | Sloka | Sloka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 following | obj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sloka | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 proceed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 proceed | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 which | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 heard | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 heard | advmod |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 proceed | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 proceed | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 proceed | aux |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 proceed | advmod |
| 22 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Sloka | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 relate | mark |
| 24 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 proceed | xcomp |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 recited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | past | Mariner | then | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | Sloka | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sloka=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not hear | present · perfect | you | cross | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | proceed | future | Sloka | now | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | relate | to-infinitive | Sloka not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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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