Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 153
Explain!’ said the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai, and he hopped on one foot.
Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: explain, say, hop · To what, where: one foot · 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), 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 | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Explain | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Explain | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Chief | det |
| 6 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Chief | compound |
| 7 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tribe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tribe | det |
| 10 | Tribe | Tribe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Chief | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tegumai | case |
| 12 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tribe | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hopped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hopped | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hopped | nsubj |
| 16 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 foot | nummod |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hopped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hop | past | Tegumai | one foot | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
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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