Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 93
‘I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,’ said the Elephant’s Child.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, say · To what, where: new one, banks, Child · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Crocodile | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Crocodile | det |
| 9 | Crocodile | Crocodile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 banks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 banks | det |
| 12 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 River | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 River | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 River | amod |
| 16 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 green | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 grey | punct |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 great | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 River | punct |
| 20 | greasy | greasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 River | amod |
| 21 | Limpopo | Limpopo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 River | compound |
| 22 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 banks | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Elephant | det |
| 27 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Child | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Elephant | case |
| 29 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | a new one | the banks of the great greasy Limpopo River | from the Crocodile | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from crocodile=Source | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Elephant's Child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
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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