Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 71

They are too clever on the turbid Amazon for poor me!’

Who acts: lodgings · What happens: be · To what, where: turbid Amazon

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 (lodgings), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 Amazon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Amazon	det
7	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Amazon	amod
8	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clever	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 poor	case
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Amazon	amod
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 poor	iobj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	lodgings = lodging			the turbid Amazon		clever property	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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