Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 119
‘But it’s straining your back-plates a little.
Who acts: exercise · What happens: strain · To what, where: back plates
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 (exercise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:403): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 straining | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 straining | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 straining | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 straining | aux |
| 5 | straining | strain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 plates | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plates | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 back | punct |
| 9 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 straining | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 straining | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 straining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strain | present · progressive | exercise | your back plates | a little obl:unmarked | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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