Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 143

‘My only visitor this morning was the poor fellow that you are trying to choke.

Who acts: only visitor, you · What happens: be, try, choke · To what, where: poor fellow, that

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 (only visitor, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 fellow	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 visitor	nmod:poss
3	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 visitor	amod
4	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fellow	nsubj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visitor	nmod:unmarked
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fellow	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fellow	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellow	amod
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 trying	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 trying	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 trying	aux
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fellow	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 choke	mark
16	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 trying	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	My only visitor this morning	the poor fellow	tree rules
2	try	present · progressive	you	that	tree rules
3	choke not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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