Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 182

But long and long before that time (When bison used to roam on it) Did Taffy and her Daddy climb That down, and had their home on it.

Who acts: bison, Taffy · What happens: use, roam, climb down, have · To what, where: bison, That, home

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 (bison, Taffy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 long	cc
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 climb	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 long	cc
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 long	conj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 Did	mark
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Did	nsubj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct
9	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 used	advmod
10	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 roam	mark
13	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 roam	obl
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct
17	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 climb	aux
18	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 climb	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Daddy	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Daddy	nmod:poss
21	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Taffy	conj
22	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 climb	obj
24	down	down	ADV	_	22 climb	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 climb	parataxis
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 home	nmod:poss
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	bison				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roam	to-infinitive	bison not said here		bison		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
3	climb down	past · do-support	Taffy and Taffy's Daddy	That		down, long property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=Theme
4	have	past		Phoenicians's home	bison		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient

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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