Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 163

Nobody said anything at all for a longtime, till the Head Chief laughed; then the Stranger-man (who was at least a Tewara) laughed; then Tegumai laughed till he fell down flat on the bank; then all the Tribe laughed more and worse and louder.

Who acts: Nobody, Head Chief, Stranger man, Tewara, Tegumai, Tribe · What happens: say, laugh, be, fall down · To what, where: anything, all, bank · 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 (Nobody, Head Chief, Stranger man, Tewara), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 anything	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 longtime	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 longtime	det
8	longtime	longtime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 laughed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Chief	det
12	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Chief	compound
13	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 man	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
18	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Stranger	punct
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 least	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 least	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 least	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 least	case
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 man	appos
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Tewara	det
27	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 laughed	nsubj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 Tewara	punct
29	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 least	acl:relcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 laughed	punct
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 laughed	advmod
32	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 laughed	nsubj
33	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 fell	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fell	nsubj
36	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 laughed	advcl
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 fell	advmod
38	flat	flat	ADV	_	36 fell	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 bank	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bank	det
41	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fell	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 laughed	punct
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 laughed	advmod
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 laughed	det:predet
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Tribe	det
46	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 laughed	nsubj
47	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 laughed	conj
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 laughed	advmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 worse	cc
50	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 laughed	ccomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 louder	cc
52	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 worse	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nobody	anything	all		for a longtime	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	laugh	past	the Head Chief					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Stranger man				least property	tree rules
4	laugh	past	a Tewara					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	past	Tegumai			then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall down	past	Tegumai		the bank		down, flat property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bank=Location
7	laugh	past	the Tribe			then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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