The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 0
Rudyard Kipling's «Just So Stories» (1902) tell how animals «got» their shapes: the Whale his small throat, the Camel his hump, the Rhinoceros his folds, the Leopard his spots, the Elephant his trunk and the Kangaroo his long legs.
Who acts: Just So Stories, animals, Whale · What happens: tell, get, throat · To what, where: shapes, Rhinoceros · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Just So Stories, animals, Whale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rudyard | Rudyard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kipling | compound |
| 2 | Kipling | kipling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 « | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Kipling | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stories | punct |
| 5 | Just | Just | PROPN | _ | 7 Stories | flat |
| 6 | So | so | PROPN | _ | 7 Stories | flat |
| 7 | Stories | story | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stories | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 1902 | punct |
| 10 | 1902 | 1902 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Stories | obl |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 1902 | punct |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 got | advmod |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 throat | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Whale | det |
| 22 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 throat | nsubj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 throat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 throat | amod |
| 25 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Camel | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Camel | det |
| 28 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 throat | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hump | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Camel | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Rhinoceros | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Rhinoceros | det |
| 33 | Rhinoceros | rhinoceros | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 throat | nmod |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 folds | nmod:poss |
| 35 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Rhinoceros | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Leopard | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Leopard | det |
| 38 | Leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Rhinoceros | appos |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 spots | nmod:poss |
| 40 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Rhinoceros | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Elephant | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Elephant | det |
| 43 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Rhinoceros | appos |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 45 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Rhinoceros | appos |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Kangaroo | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Kangaroo | det |
| 48 | Kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Rhinoceros | conj |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 legs | nmod:poss |
| 50 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 legs | amod |
| 51 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Rhinoceros | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Just So Stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | participle | animals | animals's shapes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | throat | the Whale | the Rhinoceros and the Kangaroo | 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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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