Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 127
Yes, I can go if you take me--Nurse says she don’t care.
Who acts: I, you, Nurse · What happens: go, take, say, not care · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Nurse), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 11 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 care | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 care | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 care | advmod |
| 16 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 says | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not care | infinitive · do-support | Nurse | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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