Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 101
Kindly lead me into the water once again and I’ll practice that side-stroke which you say is so easy.’
Who acts: I, that, you · What happens: lead, 'll, stroke, say, be · To what, where: me, water, practice, side stroke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, you), 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 | Kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 lead | advmod |
| 2 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 easy | advcl |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lead | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lead | obl |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 again | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 lead | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ’ll | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ’ll | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lead | conj |
| 12 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’ll | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stroke | nsubj |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stroke | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 side | punct |
| 16 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 practice | conj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 say | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stroke | acl:relcl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 easy | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 easy | advmod |
| 22 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 easy | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | infinitive | me | the water | again | kindly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into water=Destination | ||
| 2 | 'll | present | I | practice and side stroke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stroke | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you | side stroke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | present | easy property | tree rules |
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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