Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 164
The only people who did not laugh were Teshumai Tewindrow and all the Neolithic ladies.
Who acts: only people · What happens: not laugh, be · To what, where: Teshumai Tewindrow
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 people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Tewindrow | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 laugh | advmod |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Tewindrow | cop |
| 9 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tewindrow | compound |
| 10 | Tewindrow | Tewindrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ladies | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ladies | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ladies | det |
| 14 | Neolithic | neolithic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ladies | amod |
| 15 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Tewindrow | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tewindrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not laugh | past · do-support | the only people | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the only people | Teshumai Tewindrow and all Neolithic ladies | 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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