Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 115
‘A leetle more attention to holding your breath and you will be able to keep house at the bottom of the turbid Amazon.
Who acts: you · What happens: hold, be, keep · To what, where: breath, house, bottom
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), 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 | _ | 5 attention | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leetle | det |
| 3 | leetle | leetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attention | nsubj |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 attention | amod |
| 5 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 holding | mark |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 attention | acl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breath | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 able | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 able | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 able | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | cop |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holding | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 bottom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottom | det |
| 20 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Amazon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Amazon | det |
| 23 | turbid | turbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Amazon | amod |
| 24 | Amazon | amazon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bottom | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | your breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | house | the bottom of the turbid Amazon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme at bottom=Location |
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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