Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 8
The 'Stute Fish calls the Whale "Noble and generous Cetacean" ("Cetacean" = a member of the whale and dolphin family) and says Man is "Nice but nubbly" (nubbly = lumpy).
Who acts: Stute Fish, Man · What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: Whale · 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 (Stute Fish, Man), 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 | 5 calls | det |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 calls | punct |
| 3 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fish | compound |
| 4 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | nsubj |
| 5 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Whale | det |
| 7 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Whale | punct |
| 9 | Noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Whale | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Cetacean | cc |
| 11 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Noble | conj |
| 12 | Cetacean | Cetacean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Noble | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Whale | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Cetacean | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Cetacean | punct |
| 16 | Cetacean | Cetacean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Cetacean | punct |
| 18 | = | = | SYM | _ | 20 member | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 member | det |
| 20 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Cetacean | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 whale | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 whale | det |
| 23 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 member | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 family | cc |
| 25 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 family | compound |
| 26 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whale | conj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Cetacean | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 says | cc |
| 29 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 calls | conj |
| 30 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Nice | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Nice | cop |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Nice | punct |
| 33 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 says | ccomp |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 nubbly | cc |
| 35 | nubbly | nubbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Nice | conj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Nice | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 nubbly | punct |
| 38 | nubbly | nubbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Nice | conj |
| 39 | = | = | SYM | _ | 40 lumpy | punct |
| 40 | lumpy | lumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 nubbly | conj |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 nubbly | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Stute Fish | the Whale | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme cetacean=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Stute Fish not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Man | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | Man not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | Man not said here | tree rules |
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:8.
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, R6-punct-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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