Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 132

Explain!’ cried all the Tribe of Tegumai.

Who acts: you · What happens: explain, cry · To what, where: Tribe

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 (you), 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	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Explain	punct
3	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Explain	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Tribe	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tribe	det
7	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Tegumai	case
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tribe	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Explain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	you not said here	all Tribe of Tegumai					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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