Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 103

The Stranger-man--did you know he was a Tewara?--hurried away with the picture and ran for some miles, till quite by accident he found Teshumai Tewindrow at the door of her Cave, talking to some other Neolithic ladies who had come in to a Primitive lunch.

Who acts: Stranger man, man, other Neolithic ladies · What happens: know, be, hurry away, run, find, talk · To what, where: Tewara, Teshumai Tewindrow, door, Primitive lunch · 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 (Stranger man, man, other Neolithic ladies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Stranger	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	nsubj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Tewara	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Tewara	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Tewara	det
12	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 know	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 hurried	punct
15	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 know	parataxis
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 hurried	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 picture	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 picture	det
19	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hurried	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hurried	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 miles	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 miles	det
24	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 accident	punct
26	till	till	ADP	_	29 accident	case
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 accident	advmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 accident	case
29	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 accident	acl:relcl
32	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Tewindrow	compound
33	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 door	det
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Cave	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 Cave	nmod:poss
39	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 door	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 talking	punct
41	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ran	advcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	46 ladies	case
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 ladies	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 ladies	amod
45	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 ladies	amod
46	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 talking	obl
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 come	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
49	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 ladies	acl:relcl
50	in	in	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 lunch	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 lunch	det
53	Primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 lunch	amod
54	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 come	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the Stranger man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	man	a Tewara				tree rules
3	hurry away	participle					with the picture; away property	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with picture=Eventuality
4	run	past				till accident	for some miles	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mile=Beneficiary
5	find	past	man	Teshumai Tewindrow	the door of Tewindrow's Cave			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tewindrow=Theme at door=Asset
6	talk	gerund					to some other Neolithic ladies	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to lady=Co-Agent
7	come in	past · perfect	some other Neolithic ladies		a Primitive lunch			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lunch=Initial_Location

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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