Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 27

Just then a Stranger-man came along the river, but he belonged to a far tribe, the Tewaras, and he did not understand one word of Tegumai’s language.

Who acts: Stranger man, man · What happens: come, belong, not understand, word · To what, where: river, one word, language

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 (Stranger man, man), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Stranger	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 belonged	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 belonged	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 belonged	nsubj
14	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 tribe	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tribe	det
17	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tribe	amod
18	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 belonged	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Tewaras	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Tewaras	det
21	Tewaras	Tewaras	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tribe	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 understand	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 understand	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 understand	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 understand	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 understand	advmod
27	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 word	nummod
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 understand	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 language	case
31	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 language	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Tegumai	case
33	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a Stranger man		the river	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along river=Initial_Location
2	belong	past	man				to a far tribe	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	not understand	past · do-support	man	one word of Tegumai's language				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	word			Tegumai's language				nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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