Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 9

They held "a palaver, and an indaba, and a punchayet, and a pow-wow": four words from different lands that all mean a meeting to talk things over.

Who acts: animals, four words · What happens: hold, mean, talk over · To what, where: palaver, meeting, things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» 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 (animals, four words), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 palaver	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 palaver	det
5	palaver	palaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 indaba	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 indaba	cc
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 indaba	det
9	indaba	indaba	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 palaver	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 punchayet	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 punchayet	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 punchayet	det
13	punchayet	punchayet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 palaver	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wow	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wow	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wow	det
17	pow	pow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wow	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 wow	punct
19	wow	wow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 palaver	appos
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 palaver	punct
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 words	punct
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 words	nummod
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 palaver	appos
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 lands	case
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lands	amod
26	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 words	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 mean	nsubj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 that	det
29	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 words	acl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 meeting	det
31	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mean	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 talk	mark
33	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 meeting	acl
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 talk	obj
35	over	over	ADV	_	33 talk	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold	past	animals = animal	a palaver and a indaba and a punchayet	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palaver=Theme
2	mean	present	four words from different lands	a meeting	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Topic
3	talk over	to-infinitive	four words from different lands not said here	things	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=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:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:9.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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