Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 4

His name was Tegumai Bopsulai, and that means, ‘Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call him Tegumai, for short.

Who acts: name, that, we, man · What happens: be, mean, do, not put, call, name · To what, where: Tegumai, Man, foot · 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 (name, that, we, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Tegumai	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Tegumai	cop
4	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Bopsulai	Bopsulai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tegumai	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 means	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Tegumai	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Man	punct
12	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Man	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 Man	nmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 who	punct
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 who	conj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 put	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 does	advcl
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 foot	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 foot	nmod:poss
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 foot	punct
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 hurry	punct
26	forward	forward	ADV	_	32 hurry	advmod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 hurry	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 hurry	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 in	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hurry	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 a	punct
32	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 foot	appos
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 hurry	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 call	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 call	cc
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 call	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 we	punct
38	O	o	INTJ	_	40 Beloved	vocative
39	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 Beloved	amod
40	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 we	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 we	punct
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 call	aux
43	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	parataxis
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 call	obj
45	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 call	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 short	punct
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 short	case
48	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 call	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Tegumai	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	man's name	Tegumai	tree rules
2	mean	present	that	Man	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	that not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not put	infinitive	that not said here	man's foot	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal
5	call	future	we	man	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme tegumai=Result
6	name		man		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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