Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 71
He is a great Chief, or he would have noticed me.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, notice · To what, where: great Chief, me
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), 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 | 5 Chief | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Chief | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Chief | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Chief | amod |
| 5 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 noticed | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 noticed | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 noticed | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 noticed | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 noticed | aux |
| 11 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 Chief | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 noticed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | man | a great Chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notice | would · perfect | man | me | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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