Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 6
And his little girl-daughter’s name was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means, ‘Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked’; but I’m going to call her Taffy.
Who acts: name, that, I, little girl daughter · What happens: be, mean, spank, go, call, name · To what, where: Taffimai, manners, person · 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, I, little girl daughter), 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 | _ | 10 Taffimai | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 daughter | case |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Taffimai | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Taffimai | cop |
| 10 | Taffimai | Taffimai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obl |
| 11 | Metallumai | Metallumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Taffimai | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 means | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 means | nsubj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 person | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 person | punct |
| 18 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Small | punct |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 manners | punct |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 manners | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 without | punct |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 manners | det |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 any | punct |
| 26 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 person | nmod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 spanked | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 spanked | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 who | punct |
| 30 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 spanked | aux |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 spanked | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 spanked | mark |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 to | punct |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 spanked | aux:pass |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 spanked | punct |
| 36 | spanked | spank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 manners | acl:relcl |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 spanked | punct |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 ’m | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 ’m | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 ’m | nsubj |
| 41 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 means | parataxis |
| 42 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 ’m | xcomp |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 call | mark |
| 44 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 going | xcomp |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 call | obj |
| 46 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 call | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man's little girl daughter's name | Taffimai | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spank | ought · passive | that not said here | any manners | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | gerund | I not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | call | to-infinitive | I not said here | person | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme taffy=Result | ||||
| 7 | name | man's little girl daughter | 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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