Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 72

‘Son, son!’ said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, ‘now attend to me and remember what I say.

Who acts: Son, I · What happens: say, wave, attend, remember · To what, where: mother, tail, me · 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 (Son, I), 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	_	2 Son	punct
2	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Son	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 many	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waving	punct
15	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	16 waving	advmod
16	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waving	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 attend	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 attend	punct
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 attend	advmod
22	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 waving	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 attend	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remember	cc
26	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 attend	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 say	obj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 say	nsubj
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 remember	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Son	son's mother		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	wave	gerund	Son not said here	mother's tail			graciously property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	attend	infinitive			me	now		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
4	remember	infinitive						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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