Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 105
For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men: But different folk have different views: I know a person small-- She keeps ten million serving-men, Who get no rest at all!
Who acts: I, families, different folk, folk, million serving men · What happens: be, have, know, keep, get · To what, where: different views, person, million serving men, rest, all
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, different folk, folk), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 busy | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 breakfast | advcl |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 busy | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
| 7 | As | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 10 breakfast | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 As | fixed |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 As | fixed |
| 10 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lunch | punct |
| 12 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breakfast | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tea | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tea | cc |
| 15 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breakfast | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 17 | For | for | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 men | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 men | cop |
| 20 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tea | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 23 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 24 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 folk | amod |
| 25 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 breakfast | parataxis |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 views | amod |
| 28 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 person | det |
| 33 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 know | obj |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 person | amod |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 keeps | punct |
| 36 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 keeps | nsubj |
| 37 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | conj |
| 38 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 million | compound |
| 39 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 men | nummod |
| 40 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 men | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 serving | punct |
| 42 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 keeps | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 get | punct |
| 44 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 get | nsubj |
| 45 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 men | acl:relcl |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 rest | det |
| 47 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 get | obj |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 all | case |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 get | obl |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 breakfast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | then | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | families = family | for hungry men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | different folk | different views | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | a person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | folk | million serving men | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | present | million serving men | no rest | all | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rest=Theme at all=Asset |
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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