Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 11
One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down through the beaver-swamp to the Wagai river to spear carp-fish for dinner, and Taffy went too.
Who acts: Tegumai, spear, Taffy · What happens: go down, fish, go · To what, where: beaver swamp
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 (Tegumai, spear, Taffy), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | Bopsulai | Bopsulai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tegumai | flat |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 swamp | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swamp | det |
| 9 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swamp | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 beaver | punct |
| 11 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 14 | Wagai | Wagai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 river | compound |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swamp | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fish | mark |
| 17 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fish | nsubj |
| 18 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fish | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fish | punct |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 river | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 dinner | case |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fish | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 25 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Tegumai | the beaver swamp to the Wagai river | day | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through swamp=Location | ||
| 2 | fish | spear | for dinner | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Taffy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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