Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 125

First of all walked Teshumai Tewindrow and the Neolithic ladies, tightly holding on to the Stranger-man, whose hair was full of mud (although he was a Tewara).

Who acts: hair, man · What happens: walk, hold on, be · To what, where: Teshumai, Tewara

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 (hair, man), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 walked	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 walked	advmod
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obj
6	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Teshumai	flat
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ladies	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ladies	det
9	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ladies	amod
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Teshumai	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holding	punct
12	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	13 holding	advmod
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 walked	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 holding	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
17	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Stranger	punct
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 full	punct
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	22 hair	nmod:poss
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 full	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 full	cop
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walked	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 mud	case
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 full	obl
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 Tewara	punct
28	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 Tewara	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Tewara	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Tewara	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Tewara	det
32	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 full	obl
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 Tewara	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past		Teshumai and the Neolithic ladies	first property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teshumai=Agent
2	hold on	gerund			to the Stranger man; tightly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	hair		of mud; full property	tree rules
4	is a	past	man	a Tewara		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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