Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 184

The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai, Was more than six times bigger then; And all the Tribe of Tegumai They cut a noble figure then!

Who acts: Taffy, Tribe · What happens: call, cut · To what, where: Wey, noble figure · 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 (Taffy, Tribe), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wey	det
2	Wey	Wey	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bigger	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 called	mark
5	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Wey	acl:relcl
7	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bigger	punct
9	Was	Was	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bigger	nsubj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	12 six	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 more	fixed
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bigger	obl:unmarked
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 bigger	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 cut	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 cut	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 Tribe	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Tribe	det
20	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 cut	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Tegumai	case
22	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Tribe	nmod
23	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	nsubj
24	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bigger	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 figure	det
26	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 figure	amod
27	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obj
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 cut	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 bigger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Taffy	the Wey not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wey=Recipient
2	cut	past	all Tribe of Tegumai	a noble figure			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product

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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