Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 90
‘He’ll never forget that this month of Sundays,’ said Stickly-Prickly.
Who acts: Jaguar, Sundays · What happens: not forget, say · 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 (Jaguar, Sundays), 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 | _ | 5 forget | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | 'll | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 forget | advmod |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 month | det |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sundays | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Sundays | case |
| 10 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sundays | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sundays | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | advcl |
| 14 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Prickly | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stickly | punct |
| 16 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past | Jaguar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sundays | prickly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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