Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 91

‘Hold up my chin, Slow-and-Solid.

Who acts: you · What happens: hold up · To what, where: chin

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 (you), 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 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Hold	compound:prt
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chin	nmod:poss
5	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Slow	punct
7	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Hold	conj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Solid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Solid	cc
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Slow	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here	my chin					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chin=Theme

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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