Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 87
And do you quite understand, or shall I ‘splain again?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: understand, splain · 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 (you, I), 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 | _ | 5 understand | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 splain | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 splain | cc |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 splain | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 splain | nsubj |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 splain | punct |
| 11 | splain | splain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understand | ccomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 splain | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 splain | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 splain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | splain | shall | I | again | tree rules |
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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