Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 124

‘That comes from my soaking in the water.

Who acts: That, my · What happens: come, soak · To what, where: soaking, water

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 (That, my), 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 comes	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 soaking	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 soaking	nmod:poss
6	soaking	soaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaking	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	That			my soaking in the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from soaking=Initial_Location
2	soak		my			the water			nom soaking «process transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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