Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 166

Unless I go to Rio These wonders to behold-- Roll down--roll down to Rio-- Roll really down to Rio!

Who acts: Unless · What happens: go, roll down · To what, where: wonders, 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 (Unless), 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	Unless	unless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Rio	case
5	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
6	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 wonders	det
7	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 behold	case
9	behold	behold	INTJ	_	3 go	discourse
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 Roll	punct
11	Roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 Roll	advmod
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 roll	punct
14	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 Roll	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 roll	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Rio	case
17	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 down	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 down	punct
19	Roll	Roll	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 down	nsubj
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 down	advmod
21	down	down	ADV	_	14 roll	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Rio	case
23	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 down	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Unless	this wonders	Rio		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rio=Initial_Location
2	roll down	infinitive				down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll down	infinitive				down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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