Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 3

And he had a friend, a Slow-Solid Tortoise, who lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating green lettuces and things.

Who acts: Beloved, Solid Tortoise · What happens: have, live, eat · To what, where: friend, banks, green lettuces

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 (Beloved, Solid Tortoise), 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 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Tortoise	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Tortoise	det
8	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Solid	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Slow	punct
10	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Tortoise	amod
11	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friend	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Tortoise	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 banks	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 banks	det
17	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Amazon	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Amazon	det
20	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Amazon	amod
21	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 banks	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eating	punct
23	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 lived	advcl
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lettuces	amod
25	lettuces	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eating	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 things	cc
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lettuces	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Beloved	a friend and a Solid Tortoise		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
2	live	past	a Solid Tortoise		the banks of the turbid Amazon	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location
3	eat	gerund	a Solid Tortoise not said here	green lettuces and things		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient

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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