Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 116

They had filled his hair quite solid with mud; they had rolled him up and down on knobby pebbles; they had sat upon him in a long line of six; they had thumped him and bumped him till he could hardly breathe; and though he did not understand their language, he was almost sure that the names the Neolithic ladies called him were not ladylike.

Who acts: people, man, names · What happens: fill, roll up, sit, thump, bump, breathe · To what, where: hair, people, long line, man, language · 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 (people, man, names), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 filled	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filled	aux
3	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filled	obj
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 solid	advmod
7	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 mud	case
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 solid	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rolled	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rolled	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rolled	aux
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 filled	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rolled	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 rolled	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 down	cc
17	down	down	ADV	_	13 rolled	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 pebbles	case
19	knobby	knobby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pebbles	amod
20	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 down	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sat	aux
24	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 filled	parataxis
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 line	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 line	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 line	amod
30	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 six	case
32	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 line	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 thumped	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thumped	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 thumped	aux
36	thumped	thump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sat	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thumped	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bumped	cc
39	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 thumped	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bumped	obj
41	till	till	SCONJ	_	45 breathe	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 breathe	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 breathe	aux
44	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	45 breathe	advmod
45	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 bumped	advcl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 understand	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 understand	cc
48	though	though	SCONJ	_	52 understand	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 understand	nsubj
50	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 understand	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 understand	advmod
52	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 filled	parataxis
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 language	nmod:poss
54	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 understand	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 sure	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 sure	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 sure	cop
58	almost	almost	ADV	_	59 sure	advmod
59	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 ladylike	advcl
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	66 called	mark
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 names	det
62	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 called	nsubj
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 ladies	det
64	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 ladies	amod
65	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 names	nmod
66	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 sure	ccomp
67	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 called	obj
68	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 ladylike	cop
69	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	70 ladylike	advmod
70	ladylike	ladylike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 understand	parataxis
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	past · perfect	people	man's hair				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	roll up	past · perfect · passive		people				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme he=Result
3	sit	past · perfect	people			a long line of six	upon man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon he=Location
4	thump	past · perfect · passive		people				vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient he=Result
5	bump	past		man				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
6	breathe	could	man				hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not understand	past · do-support	man	people's language				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
8	is	past	man				almost, sure property	tree rules
9	call	past	the names the Neolithic ladies		man			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
10	not is	past					ladylike 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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