Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 104

I let them rest from nine till five.

Who acts: I, families · What happens: let, rest · To what, where: families, nine

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), 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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 nine	case
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rest	obl
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 five	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nine	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	I	families = family					tree rules
2	rest	infinitive	families = family not said here			nine till five			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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