Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 21

He sat down and took out a little leather mendy-bag, full of reindeer-sinews and strips of leather, and lumps of bee’s-wax and resin, and began to mend the spear.

Who acts: Tegumai, lumps · What happens: sit down, take out, begin, mend · To what, where: little leather mendy bag, spear

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 (Tegumai, lumps), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 took	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bag	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bag	amod
9	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bag	compound
10	mendy	mendy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bag	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 mendy	punct
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 full	punct
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bag	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 sinews	case
16	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sinews	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 reindeer	punct
18	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 full	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 strips	cc
20	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sinews	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 leather	case
22	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strips	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
25	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 began	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 bee’s	case
27	bee’s	bee'	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lumps	nmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wax	punct
29	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bee’s	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 resin	cc
31	resin	resin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wax	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 mend	mark
36	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 began	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 spear	det
38	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mend	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit down	past	Tegumai		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take out	past	Tegumai not said here	a little leather mendy bag	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
3	begin	past	lumps of bee’s and wax and resin		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	mend	to-infinitive	lumps of bee’s and wax and resin not said here	the spear	tree rules

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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