Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 70

‘I did that to the other thing; and he said he was a Tortoise, and I didn’t believe him, and it was quite true, and he has dived under the turbid Amazon, and he won’t come up again, and I haven’t anything at all to eat, and I think we had better find lodgings somewhere else.

Who acts: I, son, tail, we · What happens: do, say, be, not believe, dive, not come up · To what, where: that, Tortoise, son, turbid Amazon, anything, all · 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 (I, son, tail, we), 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	_	3 did	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 thing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Tortoise	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Tortoise	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Tortoise	det
16	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 believe	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 believe	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 believe	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 believe	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 believe	advmod
22	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 believe	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 true	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 true	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 true	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 true	cop
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 true	advmod
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 believe	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dived	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dived	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dived	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 dived	aux
34	dived	dive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 true	parataxis
35	under	under	ADP	_	38 Amazon	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Amazon	det
37	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Amazon	amod
38	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dived	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 come	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 come	nsubj
42	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
43	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 come	advmod
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 believe	conj
45	up	up	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
46	again	again	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 n’t	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 n’t	cc
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 n’t	nsubj
50	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 n’t	aux
51	n’t	n't	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
52	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	51 n’t	obj
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 all	case
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 anything	nmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 eat	mark
56	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 anything	acl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 think	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 think	cc
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 think	nsubj
60	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 n’t	conj
61	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 had	nsubj
62	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 think	ccomp
63	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	65 lodgings	amod
64	find	find	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 lodgings	compound
65	lodgings	lodging	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 had	obj
66	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	62 had	advmod
67	else	else	ADV	_	66 somewhere	advmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	I	that			to the other thing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	son					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	son	a Tortoise				tree rules
4	not believe	past · do-support	I	son				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	is	past	tail				true property	tree rules
6	dive	present · perfect	son		the turbid Amazon			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under amazon=Location
7	not come up	future	son			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	n't	present · perfect	I	anything	all			tree rules
9	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	anything not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	think speech: other	present	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	have	past	we	better find lodgings			somewhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=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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