Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 3

He was a Primitive, and he lived cavily in a Cave, and he wore very few clothes, and he couldn’t read and he couldn’t write and he didn’t want to, and except when he was hungry he was quite happy.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, live, wear, not read, not write, not want · To what, where: Cave, few clothes

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), 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	4 Primitive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Primitive	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Primitive	det
4	Primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lived	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Primitive	parataxis
9	cavily	cavily	ADV	_	8 lived	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Cave	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Cave	det
12	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wore	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wore	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wore	nsubj
16	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 few	advmod
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clothes	amod
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 wore	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 read	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 read	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 read	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 read	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 read	advmod
25	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Primitive	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 write	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 write	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 write	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 write	advmod
30	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 read	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 want	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 want	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 want	aux
34	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 want	advmod
35	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 read	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	35 want	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 happy	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 happy	cc
39	except	except	ADP	_	43 hungry	mark
40	when	when	SCONJ	_	43 hungry	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 hungry	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 hungry	cop
43	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 happy	advcl
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 happy	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 happy	cop
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	47 happy	advmod
47	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Primitive	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Primitive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			primitive property	tree rules
2	live	past	man		a Cave	cavily property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location
3	wear	past	man	few clothes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
4	not read	could	man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not write	could	man				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not want	past · do-support	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is	past	man			hungry property	tree rules
8	is	past	man			happy property	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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