Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 34

For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an.

Who acts: Mariner · What happens: be · To what, where: ber ni

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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 Mariner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mariner	det
3	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ni	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ni	cop
6	also	also	ADV	_	12 ni	advmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ni	det
8	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	12 ni	discourse
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Hi	punct
10	ber	ber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ni	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ber	punct
12	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Mariner	nmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 an	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ni	appos
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Mariner	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mariner	a ber ni					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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