Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 2

The Whale swims to a far spot in the ocean and swallows a shipwrecked sailor in one gulp, together with his raft, his blue trousers, his braces and his pocket-knife.

Who acts: Whale · What happens: swim, swallow · To what, where: far spot, shipwrecked sailor, one gulp

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Whale	det
2	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swims	nsubj
3	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 spot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spot	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spot	amod
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swims	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ocean	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ocean	det
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spot	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swallows	cc
12	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swims	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sailor	det
14	shipwrecked	shipwrecked	ADJ	_	15 sailor	amod
15	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swallows	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 gulp	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 gulp	nummod
18	gulp	gulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swallows	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 raft	punct
20	together	together	ADV	_	23 raft	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 raft	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 raft	nmod:poss
23	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swallows	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trousers	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 trousers	nmod:poss
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trousers	amod
27	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 raft	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 braces	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 braces	nmod:poss
30	braces	brace	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 raft	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 knife	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 knife	nmod:poss
33	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 knife	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 pocket	punct
35	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 raft	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swims	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	the Whale			a far spot in the ocean			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination
2	swallow	present	the Whale not said here	a shipwrecked sailor		one gulp		with Whale's raft and Whale's blue trousers and Whale's braces and Whale's pocket knife	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=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:2.

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): no change. 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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