Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 38
But’--and then he scratched his head with his un-prickly paw--‘how do I know that this other is Tortoise?’
Who acts: Jaguar, I · What happens: scratch, know, be · To what, where: head, other Tortoise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jaguar, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 scratched | cc |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 scratched | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 scratched | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 scratched | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scratched | nsubj |
| 7 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scratched | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 paw | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paw | nmod:poss |
| 12 | un-prickly | un-prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paw | amod |
| 13 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scratched | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 know | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 scratched | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 Tortoise | mark |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Tortoise | amod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Tortoise | cop |
| 24 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 know | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | Jaguar | Jaguar's head | then | with Jaguar's un-prickly paw | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient with paw=Instrument | ||
| 2 | know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | other Tortoise | 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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