Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 13
‘Now attend to me,’ said Painted Jaguar, ‘because this is very important.
Who acts: Painted, this · What happens: attend, say, be · To what, where: me · 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 (Painted, this), 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 attend | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 attend | advmod |
| 3 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 attend | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 attend | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 attend | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Painted | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 important | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 important | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 important | mark |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 important | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 important | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 important | advmod |
| 17 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | infinitive | me | now | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Painted | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | this | important 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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