Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 108
‘I declare, I shouldn’t know you from one of my own family.
Who acts: I · What happens: declare, not know · To what, where: you
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), 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 declare | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 declare | nsubj |
| 3 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 declare | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 know | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 family | amod |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | should | I | you | from one of my own family | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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