Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 9
Really, my Tegumai, you’re no better than my Taffy.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be
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), 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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 4 Tegumai | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tegumai | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Tegumai | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’re | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ’re | nsubj |
| 7 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Tegumai | parataxis |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 better | advmod |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ’re | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 Taffy | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Taffy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 better | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’re | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | you | good property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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