Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 122
‘Very,’ said Tegumai; ‘but it has ruined all my fishing for the day.
Who acts: Tegumai, my · What happens: say, ruin, fish · To what, where: tribe · 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 (Tegumai, my), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Very | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Very | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruined | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 ruined | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ruined | aux |
| 12 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 fishing | det:predet |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fishing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ruined | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ruined | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tegumai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ruin | present · perfect · passive | tribe | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fish | my | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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