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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

marknsubjcopadvcladvmodpunctccfixedfixedpunctnmodpunctccconjpunctcasensubjcopamodconjpunctccamodnsubjparataxisamodobjpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjamodpunctnsubjconjcompoundnummodcompoundpunctobjpunctnsubjacl:relcldetobjcaseoblpunctrootForSCONJIPRONamAUXbusyADJthenADV,PUNCTAsADVwellADVasADPbreakfastNOUN,PUNCTlunchNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJteaNOUN,PUNCTForADPtheyPRONareAUXhungryADJmenNOUN:PUNCTButCCONJdifferentADJfolkNOUNhaveVERBdifferentADJviewsNOUN:PUNCTIPRONknowVERBaDETpersonNOUNsmallADJ--PUNCTShePRONkeepsVERBtenNUMmillionNUMservingNOUN-PUNCTmenNOUN,PUNCTWhoPRONgetVERBnoDETrestNOUNatADPallDET!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforSCONJ_4 busymark
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 busynsubj
3ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 busycop
4busybusyADJDegree=Pos10 breakfastadvcl
5thenthenADVPronType=Dem4 busyadvmod
6,,PUNCT_4 busypunct
7AsasADVExtPos=CCONJ10 breakfastcc
8wellwellADVDegree=Pos7 Asfixed
9asasADP_7 Asfixed
10breakfastbreakfastNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
11,,PUNCT_12 lunchpunct
12lunchlunchNOUNNumber=Sing10 breakfastnmod
13,,PUNCT_15 teapunct
14andandCCONJ_15 teacc
15teateaNOUNNumber=Sing10 breakfastconj
16,,PUNCT_21 menpunct
17ForforADP_21 mencase
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 mennsubj
19arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 mencop
20hungryhungryADJDegree=Pos21 menamod
21menmanNOUNNumber=Plur15 teaconj
22::PUNCT_26 havepunct
23ButbutCCONJ_26 havecc
24differentdifferentADJDegree=Pos25 folkamod
25folkfolkNOUNNumber=Sing26 havensubj
26havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 breakfastparataxis
27differentdifferentADJDegree=Pos28 viewsamod
28viewsviewNOUNNumber=Plur26 haveobj
29::PUNCT_31 knowpunct
30IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs31 knownsubj
31knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 haveparataxis
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 persondet
33personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing31 knowobj
34smallsmallADJDegree=Pos33 personamod
35----PUNCT_37 keepspunct
36SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 keepsnsubj
37keepskeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 knowconj
38tentenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card39 millioncompound
39millionmillionNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card42 mennummod
40servingservingNOUNNumber=Sing42 mencompound
41--PUNCT_40 servingpunct
42menmanNOUNNumber=Plur37 keepsobj
43,,PUNCT_45 getpunct
44WhowhoPRONPronType=Rel45 getnsubj
45getgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin42 menacl:relcl
46nonoDETPronType=Neg47 restdet
47restrestNOUNNumber=Sing45 getobj
48atatADP_49 allcase
49allallDETPronType=Tot45 getobl
50!!PUNCT_10 breakfastpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentIthenbusy propertytree rules
2ispresentfamilies = familyfor hungry mentree rules
3havepresentdifferent folkdifferent viewsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient
4knowpresentIa personvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
5keeppresentfolkmillion serving menvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
6getpresentmillion serving menno restallvn 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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