Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 24

‘Remember that, because it’s important.’

Who acts: you · What happens: remember, be

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 (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct
2	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	2 Remember	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 important	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 important	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 important	expl
7	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 important	cop
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Remember	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						important property	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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