Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 36

‘I only want him to do what I want him to do, and he won’t understand.’

Who acts: I, spear · What happens: want, do, not understand · To what, where: spear

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 (I, spear), 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 want	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 understand	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 understand	nsubj
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 understand	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 understand	advmod
19	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	I	spear	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	spear not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	want	present	I	spear	tree rules
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	spear not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not understand	future	spear		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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