Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 25

‘Taffy,’ said Tegumai, ‘how often have I told you not to use slang?

Who acts: Taffy, I · What happens: say, have, tell, not use · To what, where: you, slang · 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, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Taffy	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Taffy	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 often	advmod
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 use	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 use	mark
17	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
18	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 use	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Taffy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present				often property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not use not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	slang			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slang=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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