Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 172
Let the Neolithic ladies wash the mud out of the stranger’s hair.’
Who acts: you, Neolithic ladies · What happens: let, wash · To what, where: mud, hair
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 (you, Neolithic ladies), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ladies | det |
| 3 | Neolithic | neolithic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ladies | amod |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wash | nsubj |
| 5 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mud | det |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wash | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 stranger | case |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wash | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wash | present | the Neolithic ladies | the mud | the stranger's hair | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mud=Theme out hair=Source |
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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