Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 137

‘She is quite well, thank you,’ said Painted Jaguar; ‘but you must forgive me if I do not at this precise moment recall your name.’

Who acts: Mummy, Painted Jaguar, you, I, your · What happens: be, thank, say, forgive, do, not recall · To what, where: you, me, name · 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 (Mummy, Painted Jaguar, you, I), 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	_	7 thank	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 well	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 thank	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	13 Jaguar	compound
13	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 forgive	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 forgive	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 forgive	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 forgive	aux
19	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	obj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 recall	advcl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 recall	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 moment	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 moment	det
27	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 moment	amod
28	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recall	obl
29	recall	recall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 forgive	parataxis
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 name	nmod:poss
31	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recall	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 forgive	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 forgive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mummy				well property	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Painted Jaguar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forgive	must	you	me				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	do a condition, not said to happen	present	I					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not recall	infinitive		your name		moment		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
7	name		your					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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