Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 101

Promise you’ll be surprised.’

Who acts: you · What happens: promise, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. 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	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 surprised	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprised	cop
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Promise	ccomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Promise	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	you					surprised property	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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