Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 53

That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.

Who acts: That, 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 (That, 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	That	that	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	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 talk	det
6	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 talk	advcl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Bi	punct
8	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Snakes	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Python	punct
10	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Rock	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Python	punct
12	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Snakes	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Rock	punct
14	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 talk	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 talk	advmod
16	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	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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