Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 145
‘He came with a horrible picture,’ said the Head Chief,--‘a picture that showed you were full of spears.’
Who acts: Tegumai, picture, Head Chief · What happens: come, say, show, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tegumai, picture, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 picture | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 6 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 picture | amod |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Chief | det |
| 12 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Chief | compound |
| 13 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 full | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 picture | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 picture | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 picture | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 picture | det |
| 18 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Chief | appos |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 showed | nsubj |
| 20 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 picture | acl:relcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 showed | iobj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 spears | case |
| 25 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tegumai | with a horrible picture | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | a picture | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the Head Chief | of spears; full 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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