Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 107

The other Neolithic ladies at once knocked him down and sat on him in a long line of six, while Teshumai pulled his hair.

Who acts: Teshumai · What happens: knock down, sit, pull · To what, where: other Neolithic ladies, long line, hair

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 (Teshumai), 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 ladies	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ladies	amod
3	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ladies	amod
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knocked	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 knocked	obl
7	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knocked	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 knocked	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knocked	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 line	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 line	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 line	amod
17	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 six	case
19	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 line	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pulled	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 pulled	mark
22	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pulled	nsubj
23	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hair	nmod:poss
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pulled	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock down	past		the other Neolithic ladies			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Destination
2	sit	past			a long line of six	on man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location
3	pull	past	Teshumai	man's hair			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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