Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 24
If we did we could send a message for the new spear.’
Who acts: we · What happens: send · To what, where: message
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 (we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 send | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 send | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 send | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 send | aux |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 message | det |
| 8 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 spear | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spear | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spear | amod |
| 12 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 send | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | could · past · do-support | we | a message | for the new spear | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
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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