Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 173

‘I shall be glad of that,’ said Taffy, ‘because, after all, though you’ve brought every single other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai, you’ve forgotten my Daddy’s black-handled spear.’

Who acts: I, Taffy, you · What happens: be, say, bring, have, forget, handle · To what, where: you, forgotten handled spear · 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 (I, Taffy, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 glad	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 because	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 because	punct
14	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 because	punct
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 because	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brought	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 brought	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 brought	nsubj
21	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 brought	aux:pass
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 spear	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spear	amod
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spear	amod
26	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 Tribe	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Tribe	det
29	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 spear	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Tegumai	case
31	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tribe	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ’ve	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 ’ve	nsubj
34	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
35	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 spear	amod
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Daddy	nmod:poss
37	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 spear	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Daddy	case
39	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 handled	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 black	punct
41	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 spear	amod
42	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ’ve	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 ’ve	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 ’ve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	shall	I		of that; glad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Taffy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	bring	present · passive		you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination spear=Theme
4	have	present	you	my Daddy's forgotten handled spear		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient
5	forget	participle				tree rules
6	handle	participle				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: 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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