Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 117

However, he said nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were assembled, and then he led them back to the bank of the Wagai river, and there they found Taffy making daisy-chains, and Tegumai carefully spearing small carp with his mended spear.

Who acts: man, people, Taffy, Tegumai · What happens: say, assemble, lead back, find, make, spear · To what, where: nothing, Tribe, people, bank, Taffy, daisy chains · 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 (man, people, Taffy, Tegumai), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 assembled	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 assembled	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tribe	det
9	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 assembled	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Tegumai	case
11	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Tribe	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 assembled	aux:pass
13	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 led	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 led	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 led	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 led	nsubj
18	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 led	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 led	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 bank	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bank	det
23	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 led	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 river	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
26	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 river	compound
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bank	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 found	expl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
33	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
34	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 found	xcomp
35	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 chains	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 daisy	punct
37	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 making	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spearing	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 spearing	cc
40	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 spearing	nsubj
41	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	42 spearing	advmod
42	spearing	spear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 found	advcl
43	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 carp	amod
44	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spearing	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	48 spear	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 spear	nmod:poss
47	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 spear	amod
48	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spearing	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man	nothing			however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	assemble	past · passive		the Tribe of Tegumai				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	lead back	past	man	people	the bank of the Wagai river	then		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bank=Destination
4	find	past	people	Taffy	there			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent taffy=Attribute clause=Theme
5	make	gerund	Taffy not said here	daisy chains				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product
6	spear	gerund	Tegumai	small carp			with man's mended spear; carefully property	vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent carp=Patient with spear=Instrument
7	mend	participle						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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