Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 164

And I’d like to roll to Rio Some day before I’m old!

Who acts: I · What happens: have, like, roll, be · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 ’d	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’d	nsubj
3	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’d	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 roll	mark
6	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Rio	case
8	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 roll	obl
9	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roll	obl:unmarked
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 ’m	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ’m	nsubj
13	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 roll	advcl
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ’m	xcomp
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I				tree rules
2	like	infinitive	I not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	roll not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	Rio	day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to rio=Result
4	be	present	I			old property	vn exist-47.1 «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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