Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 144

Aren’t you well, or are you ill, O Tribe of Tegumai?’

Who acts: you · What happens: not be

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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 n’t	cop
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ill	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 n’t	nsubj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 n’t	fixed
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 ill	cc
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ill	cop
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 ill	nsubj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Tribe	punct
11	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	12 Tribe	case
12	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ill	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Tegumai	case
14	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Tribe	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	you					ill property	tree rules

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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