Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 43
‘You didn’t say she said that a minute ago, said Painted Jaguar, sucking the prickles out of his paddy-paw.
Who acts: You, mother, Painted · What happens: not say, say, suck · To what, where: prickles, paddy paw · 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 (You, mother, Painted), 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 ago | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Painted | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sucking | punct |
| 17 | sucking | suck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prickles | det |
| 19 | prickles | prickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sucking | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 paw | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 paw | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 paw | nmod:poss |
| 23 | paddy | paddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 paw | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 paddy | punct |
| 25 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sucking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Painted | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suck | gerund | Painted not said here | the prickles | Painted's paddy paw | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prickle=Theme out paw=Source |
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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