Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 151

‘Son, son!’ said Mother Jaguar ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, ‘a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog, and can’t be anything but a Hedgehog; and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, and can never be anything else.’

Who acts: Son, Hedgehog, Tortoise · What happens: say, wave, be, not be · To what, where: tail, Hedgehog, anything, Tortoise · 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 (Son, Hedgehog, Tortoise), 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	_	2 Son	punct
2	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Son	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Jaguar	compound
9	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 many	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waving	punct
15	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	16 waving	advmod
16	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waving	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Hedgehog	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Hedgehog	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Hedgehog	det
22	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Hedgehog	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Hedgehog	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Hedgehog	det
25	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waving	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 anything	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 anything	cc
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 anything	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 anything	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 anything	cop
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 waving	parataxis
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 Hedgehog	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 Hedgehog	det
34	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 anything	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 Tortoise	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Tortoise	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 Tortoise	det
38	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Tortoise	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 Tortoise	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Tortoise	det
41	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 anything	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 anything	cc
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 anything	aux
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 anything	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 anything	cop
47	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 Tortoise	parataxis
48	else	else	ADV	_	47 anything	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 anything	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 Tortoise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Son		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	wave	gerund	Son not said here	mother's tail		graciously property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	is a	present	a Hedgehog	a Hedgehog			tree rules
4	not is a	can		anything			tree rules
5	is a	present	a Tortoise	a Tortoise			tree rules
6	not is a	can		anything		else 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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