Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 158

So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving them alone; but the curious thing is that from that day to this, O Best Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo.

Who acts: Painted, curious thing, Best Beloved · What happens: do, tell, leave, be, call · To what, where: Painted, shares, 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 (Painted, curious thing, Best Beloved), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	4 did	nsubj
3	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Painted	flat
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leaving	punct
10	especially	especially	ADV	_	12 leaving	advmod
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	12 leaving	mark
12	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leaving	obj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 leaving	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 day	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 day	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 day	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 day	cop
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	nsubj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 this	case
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Beloved	punct
28	O	o	INTJ	_	30 Beloved	vocative
29	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 Beloved	amod
30	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 called	nsubj:pass
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 banks	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 banks	det
36	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 Amazon	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Amazon	det
39	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Amazon	amod
40	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 banks	nmod
41	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 called	aux
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 called	advmod
43	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Beloved	acl:relcl
44	Stickly	Stickly	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 called	xcomp
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 Stickly	punct
46	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 anything	amod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 Slow	cc
48	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Solid	amod
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 Slow	punct
50	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 anything	amod
51	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 called	obj
52	except	except	ADP	_	53 Armadillo	case
53	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 anything	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Painted				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Painted			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	leave	gerund		shares = share		alone, especially property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	present	the curious thing		from that day	to this	tree rules
5	call	present · perfect · passive	Best Beloved not said here	no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon	ever		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme anything=Result

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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