Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 123
Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.’
Who acts: whole dear quiet Tribe · What happens: be
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 (whole dear quiet Tribe), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 here | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tribe | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tribe | amod |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tribe | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dear | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nice | punct |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kind | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clean | punct |
| 11 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kind | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clean | punct |
| 13 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tribe | amod |
| 14 | Tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 here | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 here | cop |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Taffy | punct |
| 18 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 here | vocative |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Taffy | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the whole dear quiet Tribe | Taffy vocative; here 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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