Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 111

She showed the picture to all the Neolithic ladies sitting patiently on the Stranger-man.

Who acts: Teshumai, Neolithic ladies · What happens: show, sit · To what, where: picture, Neolithic ladies

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, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 picture	det
4	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 ladies	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 ladies	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
8	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladies	amod
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 showed	obl
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ladies	acl
11	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	10 sitting	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 man	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
14	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Stranger	punct
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	Teshumai	the picture	all Neolithic ladies				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Topic to lady=Recipient
2	sit	gerund	all Neolithic ladies not said here					on the Stranger man; patiently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on man=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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