Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 57

I only meant to explain to Your Lordliness that I’ve had nothing to eat since morning, and I’m very empty indeed.’

Who acts: I · What happens: mean, explain, have, eat, be · To what, where: Lordliness, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 meant	advmod
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 explain	mark
5	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Lordliness	case
7	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Lordliness	nmod:poss
8	Lordliness	lordliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explain	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ’ve	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ’ve	nsubj
11	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Lordliness	acl:relcl
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 explain	ccomp
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nothing	acl
16	since	since	ADP	_	17 morning	case
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ’m	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ’m	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ’m	nsubj
21	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	conj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 empty	advmod
23	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ’m	xcomp
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 ’m	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	I					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		Your Lordliness			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to lordliness=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	Your Lordliness				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	have	past		nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	eat	to-infinitive		nothing not said here		morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	present	I				empty, indeed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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