Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 165

I’ve never seen a Jaguar, Nor yet an Armadill O dilloing in his armour, And I s’pose I never will,

Who acts: I · What happens: not see, dillo, s'pose · To what, where: Jaguar, armour

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	4 seen	nsubj
2	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Jaguar	det
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Nor	punct
8	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Jaguar	conj
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 O	det
11	Armadill	Armadill	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 O	compound
12	O	o	X	_	4 seen	obj
13	dilloing	dillo	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 O	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 armour	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 armour	nmod:poss
16	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dilloing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 s’pose	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 s’pose	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 s’pose	nsubj
20	s’pose	s'pose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 will	nsubj
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 will	advmod
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 s’pose	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not see	present · perfect	I	a Jaguar and Nor		yet	tree rules
2	dillo	gerund			Nor's armour		tree rules
3	s'pose	present	I				tree rules

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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