Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 70

He thought, ‘There must be a big battle going to be fought somewhere, and this extraordinary child, who takes my magic shark’s tooth but who does not swell up or burst, is telling me to call all the great Chief’s tribe to help him.

Who acts: man, big battle, extraordinary child · What happens: think, go, fight, take, not swell up, burst · To what, where: tooth, me, tribe, man · 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 (man, big battle, extraordinary child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
5	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 be	expl
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 going	aux
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 battle	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 battle	amod
10	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	nsubj
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	14 fought	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 fought	aux:pass
14	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 going	xcomp
15	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 fought	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 telling	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 telling	cc
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 child	det
19	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 telling	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 takes	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 takes	nsubj
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 child	acl:relcl
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shark	nmod:poss
25	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shark	compound
26	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tooth	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 shark	case
28	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	obj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 swell	cc
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 swell	nsubj
31	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 swell	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 swell	advmod
33	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 takes	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 swell	compound:prt
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 burst	cc
36	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 swell	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 child	punct
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 telling	aux
39	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	advcl
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 telling	iobj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 call	mark
42	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 telling	xcomp
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 tribe	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Chief	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Chief	amod
46	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 tribe	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 Chief	case
48	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 call	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 help	mark
50	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 call	advcl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 help	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	infinitive · progressive	a big battle				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fight	to-infinitive · passive	a big battle not said here			somewhere property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»
4	take	present	this extraordinary child	my magic shark's tooth			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
5	not swell up	present · do-support					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	burst	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	this extraordinary child		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
8	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	this extraordinary child not said here	the great Chief's tribe			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribe=Recipient
9	help	to-infinitive	this extraordinary child not said here		man		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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