Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 81

‘Even Painted Jaguar can’t forget those directions.

Who acts: Painted Jaguar · What happens: not forget · To what, where: directions

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 (Painted Jaguar), 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	_	7 forget	punct
2	Even	even	ADV	_	3 Painted	advmod
3	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	4 Jaguar	compound
4	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forget	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 forget	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 forget	advmod
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 directions	det
9	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forget	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forget	can	Painted Jaguar	that directions					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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