Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 6

But also, and at the same time, in those High and Far-Off Times, there was a Painted Jaguar, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon too; and he ate everything that he could catch.

Who acts: Jaguar, those · What happens: live, eat, catch · To what, where: banks, everything

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, those), 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	_	39 ate	cc
2	also	also	ADV	_	39 ate	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ate	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ate	cc
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ate	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 ate	nsubj
12	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 those	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Times	cc
14	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 Times	advmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Far	punct
16	Off	off	ADP	_	17 Times	case
17	Times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 those	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 those	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 those	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Jaguar	det
22	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	23 Jaguar	compound
23	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lived	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lived	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lived	nsubj
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 those	acl:relcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 banks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 banks	det
30	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lived	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 Amazon	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Amazon	det
33	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Amazon	amod
34	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 banks	nmod
35	too	too	ADV	_	27 lived	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 ate	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ate	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ate	nsubj
39	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 ate	obj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 catch	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 catch	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 catch	aux
44	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 everything	acl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	past	Jaguar		the banks of the turbid Amazon		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location
2	eat	past	those	everything		time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	catch	could	Jaguar				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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