Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 47
This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
Who acts: This, Coloured Rock Snakes · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: way
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 (This, Coloured Rock Snakes), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Bi | bi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Coloured | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bi | punct |
| 7 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Snakes | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Python | punct |
| 9 | Python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Rock | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Python | punct |
| 11 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Snakes | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rock | punct |
| 13 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 talk | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 talk | advmod |
| 15 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | Coloured Rock Snakes | the way not said here | always property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
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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