Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 32

‘I shouldn’t say that again if I were you,’ said the Djinn; you might say it once too often.

Who acts: I, Djinn, you · What happens: not say, be, say · To what, where: that, you, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Djinn, you), 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	_	5 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 say	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 said	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 you	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 you	cop
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 you	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 you	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Djinn	det
16	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	obj
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 say	advmod
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 often	advmod
24	often	often	ADV	_	20 say	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	should	I	that	again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
2	is a	past	I	you			tree rules
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	the Djinn				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	might	you	work		often, once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 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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