Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 162

I’VE never sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdelana, They can go there when they will!

Who acts: I, Don · What happens: have, not sail, not reach, go · To what, where: Amazon, Brazil

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, Don), 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	2 ’VE	nsubj
2	’VE	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sailed	advmod
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ’VE	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Amazon	det
6	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ’ve	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ’ve	nsubj
9	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sailed	conj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 reached	advmod
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ’ve	advcl
12	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
14	But	but	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Don	det
16	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 go	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Magdelana	cc
18	Magdelana	Magdelana	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Don	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Don	punct
20	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ’VE	parataxis
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 go	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 will	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 will	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	advcl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ’VE	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	I			tree rules
2	not sail	past	I not said here	the Amazon		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amazon=Theme
3	have	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not reach	past	I not said here	Brazil		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brazil=Theme
5	go	can	the Don and Magdelana		there	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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