Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 7
The Whale ate "the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab", until only one small 'Stute Fish was left; "'Stute" is short for "astute", which means clever.
Who acts: Whale, Stute · What happens: eat, leave, be, mean · To what, where: starfish, Stute
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, Stute), 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 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 starfish | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 starfish | det |
| 6 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 garfish | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garfish | det |
| 9 | garfish | garfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 starfish | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crab | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crab | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crab | det |
| 13 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 starfish | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dab | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dab | det |
| 16 | dab | dab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crab | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dab | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 small | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 small | mark |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 small | nsubj |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Fish | amod |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 small | punct |
| 24 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 left | nsubj |
| 25 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Stute | flat |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | aux:pass |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ate | advcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 short | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 short | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Stute | punct |
| 31 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 short | nsubj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Stute | punct |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 short | cop |
| 34 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ate | parataxis |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 astute | case |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 astute | punct |
| 37 | astute | astute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 short | obl |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 astute | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 means | punct |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 means | nsubj |
| 41 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 astute | acl:relcl |
| 42 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 means | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the Whale | the starfish and the garfish and the crab and the dab | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starfish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | Stute | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Stute | for astute; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | clever property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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