Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 156
I should call it “Armadillo” till I found out the real one.
Who acts: I · What happens: call, find out · To what, where: name, real one · 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Armadillo | punct |
| 6 | Armadillo | Armadillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Armadillo | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 found | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | should | I | name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | find out | past | I | the real one | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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