Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 153
It’s a little bit of both, and I don’t know its proper name.’
Who acts: I, tail · What happens: not know, name · To what, where: proper name
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 (I, tail), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ’s | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bit | amod |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’s | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 both | case |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 bit | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ’s | parataxis |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 name | amod |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | tail's proper name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | name | tail | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/8/153/