Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 34
‘Don’t bother grown-ups,’ said Tegumai, so busy with his spear-mending that he did not turn round.
Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: not bother, grow, say, mend, not turn round · To what, where: grown ups · 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 (Tegumai), 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 | _ | 4 bother | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 bother | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bother | advmod |
| 4 | bother | bother | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bother | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bother | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bother | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 busy | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 busy | advmod |
| 14 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 mending | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mending | nsubj |
| 17 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mending | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 spear | punct |
| 19 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 busy | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 turn | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 turn | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 turn | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 turn | advmod |
| 24 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 mending | advcl |
| 25 | round | round | ADV | _ | 24 turn | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother | infinitive · do-support | grown ups | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus up=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tegumai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mend | gerund | Tegumai | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not turn round | past · do-support | Tegumai | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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