Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 5

And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short.

Who acts: name, that, Lady, we, wife · What happens: be, mean, ask, call, name · To what, where: Teshumai, Lady, many questions · 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, Lady, we), 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	_	7 Teshumai	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 wife	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Teshumai	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Teshumai	cop
7	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 means	obl
8	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Teshumai	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 means	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 means	nsubj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Lady	punct
15	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 means	obj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Lady	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 asks	nsubj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 who	punct
19	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Lady	acl:relcl
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 questions	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 questions	det
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 a	punct
23	very	very	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 very	punct
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 questions	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 questions	punct
27	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 asks	obj
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 questions	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 call	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 call	cc
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 call	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Beloved	punct
33	O	o	INTJ	_	35 Beloved	vocative
34	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 Beloved	amod
35	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 we	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 we	punct
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 call	aux
38	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 means	ccomp
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 Teshumai	nmod:poss
40	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 call	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 short	punct
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 short	case
43	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 call	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	man's wife's name	Teshumai		tree rules
2	mean	present	that	Lady		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	present	Lady	a many questions		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
4	call speech: assert	future	we		Beloved's Teshumai	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teshumai=Recipient
5	name		man's wife			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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