Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 111

When you’ve finished, I want to try that long dive which you say is so easy.

Who acts: you, I, long dive · What happens: have, finish, want, try, say, be · To what, where: long dive · 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 (you, I, long dive), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 ’ve	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ’ve	nsubj
3	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 want	advcl
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ’ve	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’ve	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 try	mark
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 easy	mark
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dive	amod
12	dive	dive	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 easy	nsubj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 say	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dive	acl:relcl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 easy	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 easy	advmod
18	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 try	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	you			tree rules
2	finish	participle	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	want	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	present	you	long dive		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
6	is	present	long dive		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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