Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 45

‘Well, suppose you say that I said that she said something quite different, I don’t see that it makes any difference; because if she said what you said I said she said, it’s just the same as if I said what she said she said.

Who acts: you, I, mother, paw · What happens: suppose, say, not see, make, be · To what, where: something, difference · 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, I, mother, paw), 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	_	4 suppose	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 suppose	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 said	obj
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 different	advmod
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 something	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 suppose	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 makes	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 makes	nsubj
23	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 see	ccomp
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 difference	det
25	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 makes	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	parataxis
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 said	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	ccomp
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 said	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 same	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 same	nsubj
40	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 same	cop
41	just	just	ADV	_	43 same	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 same	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 suppose	parataxis
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 said	mark
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 said	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 said	nsubj
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 same	advcl
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 said	obj
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 said	nsubj
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 what	acl:relcl
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 said	nsubj
52	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 said	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	mother	something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
5	not see	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	make	present	paw	any difference		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product
7	say speech: assert	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
8	say speech: assert	past	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	say speech: assert	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
11	is	present	paw		same property	tree rules
12	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
13	say speech: assert	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
14	say speech: assert	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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