Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 2
He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best Beloved, but never mind why.
Who acts: man, Dravidian · What happens: not be, be, not mind · To what, where: Jute, Best Beloved
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 (man, Dravidian), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Jute | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Jute | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 Jute | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Jute | det |
| 5 | Jute | Jute | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 Angle | cc |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Angle | det |
| 8 | Angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Jute | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dravidian | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Dravidian | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 Dravidian | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Dravidian | det |
| 13 | Dravidian | Dravidian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jute | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Beloved | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 Beloved | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Beloved | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 Beloved | aux |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 Beloved | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Beloved | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 Beloved | cop |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Beloved | punct |
| 22 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 Beloved | amod |
| 23 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dravidian | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mind | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 mind | cc |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 mind | advmod |
| 27 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 Jute | parataxis |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 mind | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | man | a Jute or a Angle or a Dravidian | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | might · perfect | a Dravidian | Best Beloved | well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not mind | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=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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