Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 133
By and by they found Painted Jaguar, still nursing his paddy-paw that had been hurt the night before.
Who acts: scales · What happens: find, nurse, hurt · To what, where: Painted, paddy paw
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 (scales), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Painted | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nursing | punct |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 nursing | advmod |
| 10 | nursing | nurse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 found | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 paw | nmod:poss |
| 12 | paddy | paddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paw | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 paddy | punct |
| 14 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nursing | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hurt | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 hurt | aux:pass |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 paw | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurt | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 night | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | scales = scale | Painted | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painted=Topic | ||||
| 2 | nurse | gerund | scales = scale not said here | Painted's paddy paw | still | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | hurt | past · perfect · passive | Painted's paddy paw | night | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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