The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 67

'I am Chi-dubula-taka,' said he, 'and I am making the river-beds.'

Who acts: I, Chi dubula taka · What happens: be, say, make · To what, where: Chi dubula taka, river beds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Chi dubula taka), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 taka	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 taka	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 taka	cop
4	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taka	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Chi	punct
6	dubula	dubula	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taka	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dubula	punct
8	taka	taka	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taka	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 taka	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 '	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 '	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 making	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 making	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 making	aux
18	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beds	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beds	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 river	punct
22	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 making	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	I	Chi dubula taka	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Chi dubula taka		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	make	present · progressive	I	the river beds	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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