Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 102

I Keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who.

Who acts: I, families, names · What happens: keep, teach, know, be, name · To what, where: six honest serving men, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, families, names), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Keep	nsubj
2	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 men	nummod
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
5	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 serving	punct
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Keep	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 taught	punct
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 taught	punct
10	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taught	nsubj
11	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Keep	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 taught	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 knew	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taught	advcl
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
17	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 names	nmod:poss
18	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 What	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 What	cop
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 knew	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Where	cc
22	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 What	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 When	cc
24	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 What	conj
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 Why	cc
26	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 Why	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Why	cc
28	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 What	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Who	cc
30	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	28 Why	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	keep	infinitive	I	six honest serving men		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	teach speech: other	past	families = family		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	know	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	families's names			tree rules
5	name		families = family			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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