Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 167

Oh, I’d love to roll to Rio Some day before I’m old!

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	love				tree rules
2	roll	to-infinitive	love not said here		Rio	day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to rio=Result
3	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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