Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 32

And the Stranger-man said ‘Um!’ being, as you know, a Tewara.

Who acts: Stranger man, you · What happens: say, know · 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 (Stranger man, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Stranger	punct
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Um	punct
8	Um	Um	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Um	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Um	punct
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 know	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Tewara	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Tewara	det
18	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 know	vocative
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Stranger man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	you					a Tewara vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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