Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 87
Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of the turbid Amazon sucking prickles out of his Paws and saying to himself--
Who acts: Painted Jaguar · What happens: paint, sit, suck, say · To what, where: banks, prickles, Paws, Jaguar · 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 (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 | Painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Jaguar | amod |
| 2 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 banks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 banks | det |
| 7 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Amazon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Amazon | det |
| 10 | turbid | turbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Amazon | amod |
| 11 | Amazon | amazon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 banks | nmod |
| 12 | sucking | suck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | advcl |
| 13 | prickles | prickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sucking | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 Paws | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Paws | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Paws | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sucking | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saying | cc |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 saying | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | Painted Jaguar | the banks of the turbid Amazon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 3 | suck | gerund | Painted Jaguar not said here | prickles | Jaguar's Paws | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prickle=Theme out paw=Source | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Painted Jaguar not said here | Jaguar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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