Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 14
The Mariner says "Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion": "natal" = where he was born, "Albion" = an old name for Britain, whose white chalk cliffs stand at Dover.
Who acts: Mariner, white chalk cliffs · What happens: say, take, bear, stand · To what, where: Mariner, natal shore, Dover · 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, white chalk cliffs), 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 Mariner | det |
| 2 | Mariner | Mariner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Take | punct |
| 5 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Take | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shore | nmod:poss |
| 9 | natal | natal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shore | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 natal | punct |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Take | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Albion | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cliffs | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cliffs | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 white | punct |
| 16 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shore | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Albion | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Albion | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 of | punct |
| 20 | Albion | Albion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shore | conj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Take | punct |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 natal | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 natal | punct |
| 24 | natal | natal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 natal | punct |
| 26 | = | = | SYM | _ | 30 born | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 born | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 born | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 born | aux:pass |
| 30 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 natal | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 born | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Albion | punct |
| 33 | Albion | Albion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 born | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Albion | punct |
| 35 | = | = | SYM | _ | 38 name | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 name | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 name | amod |
| 38 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Albion | appos |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 Britain | case |
| 40 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 name | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 stand | punct |
| 42 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 45 cliffs | nmod:poss |
| 43 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 cliffs | amod |
| 44 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 cliffs | compound |
| 45 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 stand | nsubj |
| 46 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Albion | acl:relcl |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 Dover | case |
| 48 | Dover | Dover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 stand | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Mariner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | the Mariner = mariner | my natal shore and the white cliffs and Albion | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to shore=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | Mariner | Albion obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand | present | white chalk cliffs | Dover | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at dover=Location |
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:14.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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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