Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 126

Behind them came the Head Chief, the Vice-Chief, the Deputy and Assistant Chiefs (all armed to the upper teeth), the Hetmans and Heads of Hundreds, Platoffs with their Platoons, and Dolmans with their Detachments; Woons, Neguses, and Akhoonds ranking in the rear (still armed to the teeth).

Who acts: legs, Akhoonds · What happens: come, rank, detach · To what, where: Dolmans, rear

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 (legs, Akhoonds), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 came	mark
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Chief	det
5	Head	Head	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Chief	compound
6	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Chief	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Chief	det
9	Vice	vice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Chief	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Vice	punct
11	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Chief	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Deputy	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Deputy	det
14	Deputy	deputy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Chief	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Chiefs	cc
16	Assistant	Assistant	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Chiefs	compound
17	Chiefs	Chief	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Chief	conj
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 armed	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 armed	det
20	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Chief	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 teeth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 teeth	det
23	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 teeth	amod
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 armed	obl
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 armed	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Hetmans	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Hetmans	det
28	Hetmans	Hetman	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Chief	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Heads	cc
30	Heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Hetmans	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Hundreds	case
32	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Heads	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Platoffs	punct
34	Platoffs	platoff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Chief	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 Platoons	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Platoons	nmod:poss
37	Platoons	platoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Platoffs	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Dolmans	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Dolmans	cc
40	Dolmans	Dolman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 Detachments	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 Detachments	nmod:poss
43	Detachments	detachment	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 Dolmans	nmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 Woons	punct
45	Woons	woon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Neguses	punct
47	Neguses	negus	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 Woons	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Akhoonds	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 Akhoonds	cc
50	Akhoonds	akhoond	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 Woons	conj
51	ranking	rank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 Akhoonds	acl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 rear	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 rear	det
54	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 ranking	obl
55	(	(	PUNCT	_	57 armed	punct
56	still	still	ADV	_	57 armed	advmod
57	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 rear	amod
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 teeth	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 teeth	det
60	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 armed	obl
61	)	)	PUNCT	_	57 armed	punct
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	legs = leg	Dolmans with legs's Detachments		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rank	gerund	Akhoonds not said here		the rear	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	detach		legs = leg			nom detachment «feeling 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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