Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 163

Yes, weekly from Southampton, Great steamers, white and gold, Go rolling down to Rio (Roll down--roll down to Rio!)

Who acts: Southampton · What happens: go, roll down · To what, where: Rio

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 (Southampton), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	14 Go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	5 Southampton	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Southampton	case
5	Southampton	Southampton	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Go	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 steamers	punct
7	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steamers	amod
8	steamers	steamer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Southampton	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 white	punct
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steamers	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gold	cc
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 white	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Southampton	punct
14	Go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 Go	xcomp
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 rolling	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Rio	case
18	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 rolling	obl
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 Roll	punct
20	Roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 Go	parataxis
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 Roll	advmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 roll	punct
23	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 Roll	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 roll	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Rio	case
26	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 roll	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 Roll	punct
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 Roll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	Southampton and Great steamers			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	roll down	gerund	Southampton and Great steamers not said here	Rio	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to rio=Result
3	roll down	infinitive			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	roll down	infinitive		Rio	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to rio=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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