Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 143

‘You told me to drop into the turbid Amazon and be drowned,’ said Slow-Solid.

Who acts: You · What happens: tell, drop, drown, say · To what, where: me, turbid Amazon · 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 (You), 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 told	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drop	mark
6	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 Amazon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Amazon	det
9	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Amazon	amod
10	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 drop	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drowned	cc
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 drowned	aux:pass
13	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 drop	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Solid	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Slow	punct
19	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	You	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drop not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here		into the turbid Amazon result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into amazon=Result
3	drown	infinitive · passive	You not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
4	say speech: assert	past			solid property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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