Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 91

He feared that his enemies were hiding in the bushes and would see him.

Who acts: Chief, enemies · What happens: fear, hide, see · To what, where: bushes, Chief

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 (Chief, enemies), 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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 hiding	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 enemies	nmod:poss
5	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hiding	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hiding	aux
7	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 feared	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bushes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bushes	det
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hiding	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fear	past	Chief			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hide	past · progressive	Chief's enemies		the bushes	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location
3	see	would	Chief not said here	Chief		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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