Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 166

Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai cried and said and sang, ‘O Small-person-with-out-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked, you’ve hit upon a great invention!’

Who acts: Head Chief, you · What happens: cry, say, sing, spank, hit · To what, where: Small person, manners · 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 (Head Chief, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Chief	det
3	Head	Head	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chief	compound
4	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Tribe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tribe	det
7	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chief	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Tegumai	case
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tribe	nmod
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sang	cc
14	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 person	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 person	punct
17	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	20 person	case
18	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 person	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Small	punct
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sang	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 out	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 out	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 with	punct
24	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 person	appos
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 out	punct
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 manners	det
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 any	punct
28	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 person	nmod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 manners	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 spanked	nsubj:pass
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 who	punct
32	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 spanked	aux
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 spanked	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	38 spanked	mark
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 spanked	punct
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 spanked	aux:pass
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 spanked	punct
38	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 manners	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spanked	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 hit	nsubj
41	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 hit	aux
42	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 spanked	conj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 invention	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 invention	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 invention	amod
46	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hit	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 spanked	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 person	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai not said here	Small person any manners			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location person=Theme
4	spank	ought · passive	the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai not said here	any manners			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	hit	present · perfect	you			upon a great invention	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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