Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 37
‘Then don’t bother me, said Tegumai, and he went on pulling and straining at the deer-sinews with his mouth full of loose ends.
Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: not bother, say, go, pull, strain · To what, where: me, deer sinews · 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 | _ | 5 bother | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bother | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 bother | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bother | advmod |
| 5 | bother | bother | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bother | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bother | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 pulling | mark |
| 15 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 straining | cc |
| 17 | straining | strain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pulling | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 sinews | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sinews | det |
| 20 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sinews | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 deer | punct |
| 22 | sinews | sinew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 straining | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sinews | nmod |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mouth | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ends | case |
| 28 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ends | amod |
| 29 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother | infinitive · do-support | me | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tegumai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Tegumai | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull | gerund | Tegumai not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | strain | gerund | Tegumai not said here | the deer sinews with Tegumai's mouth | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
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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