Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 23

The poem after the story says you are at "Fifty North and Forty West" when a ship rolls in a storm and everyone feels seasick.

Who acts: poem, you, ship, everyone · What happens: say, be, roll, feel · To what, where: North West, storm · 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 (poem, you, ship, everyone), 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 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poem	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 West	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 West	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	15 West	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 West	punct
11	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 North	compound
12	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 West	compound
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Forty	cc
14	Forty	Forty	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 North	conj
15	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 West	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 rolls	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rolls	nsubj
20	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 West	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 storm	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 storm	det
23	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rolls	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 feels	cc
25	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 feels	nsubj
26	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 rolls	conj
27	seasick	seasick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feels	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the poem after the story			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	you	North West		tree rules
3	roll	present	a ship	a storm		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Trajectory
4	feel	present	everyone		seasick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:23.

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 ×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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