Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 175

I don’t mind it myself, because I am a Head Chief, but it’s very bad for the rest of the Tribe of Tegumai, and, as you can see, it surprises the stranger.’

Who acts: I, language, you · What happens: not mind, be, see, surprise · To what, where: language, Head Chief, stranger

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, language, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 mind	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mind	advmod
4	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mind	obj
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 mind	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Chief	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 Chief	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Chief	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Chief	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Chief	det
12	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Chief	compound
13	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mind	vocative
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bad	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 bad	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bad	nsubj
17	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bad	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 bad	advmod
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mind	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 rest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bad	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Tribe	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Tribe	det
25	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 rest	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Tegumai	case
27	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Tribe	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 see	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mind	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 surprises	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 surprises	nsubj
37	surprises	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stranger	det
39	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 surprises	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mind	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mind	present · do-support	I	language	myself obl	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	I	a Head Chief		tree rules
3	is	present	language		for the rest of the Tribe of Tegumai; bad property	tree rules
4	see	can	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	surprise	present	language	the stranger		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stranger=Experiencer

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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