Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 129

Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy very much indeed; but the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai took Tegumai by the top-knot feathers and shook him severely.

Who acts: Teshumai, Head Chief · What happens: run down, kiss, hug, take, shake · To what, where: Taffy, Tegumai

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 (Teshumai, Head Chief), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ran	advmod
2	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
3	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Teshumai	flat
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kissed	cc
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hugged	cc
9	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kissed	conj
10	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hugged	obj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 indeed	advmod
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 hugged	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Chief	det
17	Head	Head	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Chief	compound
18	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 took	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Tribe	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Tribe	det
21	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Chief	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Tegumai	case
23	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Tribe	nmod
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
25	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	31 feathers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 feathers	det
28	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 knot	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 top	punct
30	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 feathers	compound
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shook	cc
33	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shook	obj
35	severely	severely	ADV	_	33 shook	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run down	past	Teshumai			then	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kiss	past	Teshumai not said here					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hug	past	Teshumai not said here	Taffy			indeed property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taffy=Co-Agent
4	take	past	the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai		Tegumai		by the knot feathers	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tegumai=Destination
5	shake	past	the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai not said here	Tegumai			severely property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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