Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 93
I will away and get help for him from his tribe.’
Who acts: I · What happens: get · To what, where: help, tribe
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tribe | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | I | help | Chief's tribe | for Chief; away property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent help=Theme from tribe=Source for he=Asset |
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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