Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 13
Inside the Whale the Mariner "stumped and he jumped and he thumped and he bumped", and danced hornpipes (a lively sailors' dance), giving the Whale "hiccoughs", an old spelling of hiccups.
Who acts: Mariner, lively sailors · What happens: stump, jump, thump, bump, dance, give · To what, where: old spelling, hornpipes, hiccoughs, Whale, hiccups · 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 (Mariner, lively sailors), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 Whale | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Whale | det |
| 3 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stumped | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mariner | det |
| 5 | Mariner | Mariner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stumped | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stumped | punct |
| 7 | stumped | stump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jumped | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stumped | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thumped | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thumped | nsubj |
| 13 | thumped | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bumped | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bumped | nsubj |
| 16 | bumped | bump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thumped | ccomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bumped | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 danced | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 danced | cc |
| 20 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stumped | conj |
| 21 | hornpipes | hornpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 danced | obj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 dance | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sailors | det |
| 24 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sailors | amod |
| 25 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dance | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 sailors | case |
| 27 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hornpipes | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 dance | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 30 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 danced | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Whale | det |
| 32 | Whale | whale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 giving | iobj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 hiccoughs | punct |
| 34 | hiccoughs | hiccough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 giving | obj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 hiccoughs | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 spelling | punct |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 spelling | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 spelling | amod |
| 39 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stumped | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 hiccups | case |
| 41 | hiccups | hiccup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 spelling | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stumped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stump in a quote | past | the Mariner | a old spelling of hiccups | inside the Whale | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside whale=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | jump in a quote | past | Mariner | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | thump in a quote | past | Mariner | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bump in a quote | past | Mariner | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dance | past | the Mariner not said here | hornpipes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hornpipe=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | gerund | the Mariner not said here | hiccoughs | the Whale | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent whale=Recipient hiccough=Theme | |||
| 7 | dance | a lively sailors | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | spell | hiccups | nom spelling «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:13.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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