Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 170

At present it is only pictures, and, as we have seen to-day, pictures are not always properly understood.

Who acts: present, we · What happens: be, see, not understand · To what, where: pictures, present

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 (present, we), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 present	case
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pictures	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pictures	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pictures	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 pictures	advmod
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seen	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 pictures	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 to	punct
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 understood	punct
18	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 understood	conj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 understood	aux:pass
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 understood	advmod
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 understood	advmod
22	properly	properly	ADV	_	23 understood	advmod
23	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 seen	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pictures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	present	pictures	present			tree rules
2	see	present · perfect	we	pictures not said here		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus
3	not understand	present · passive	we not said here				always, properly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»

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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