Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 10

The sailor (the "Mariner") is "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity", which means he is endlessly clever and full of good sense.

Who acts: sailor, man, resource · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books 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 (sailor, man, resource), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Mariner	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mariner	det
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Mariner	punct
6	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sailor	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Mariner	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 Mariner	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	20 sagacity	case
14	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 resource	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 infinite	punct
16	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sagacity	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 sagacity	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sagacity	cc
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 sagacity	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 means	nsubj
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 man	advcl:relcl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 clever	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 clever	cop
27	endlessly	endlessly	ADV	_	28 clever	advmod
28	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 means	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 full	cc
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clever	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sense	case
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sense	amod
33	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 full	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the sailor	a man	of sagacity	tree rules
2	mean	present	a man			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	resource		clever, endlessly property	tree rules
4	be		resource not said here		of good sense	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:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:10.

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. 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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