Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 141

‘Where are the bad people who speared you, my darling?’ said Teshumai Tewindrow.

Who acts: bad people · What happens: be, spear · To what, where: you

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 (bad people), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Where	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 speared	nsubj
8	speared	spear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 speared	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 darling	nmod:poss
12	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
16	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
17	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Teshumai	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bad people					where property	tree rules
2	spear	past	the bad people	you					vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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