Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 10

The Kolokolo Bird, sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush (a thorny African bush that catches at you), said: "Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out."

Who acts: Kolokolo Bird, thorny African bush · What happens: sit, catch, say, go, find out · To what, where: middle, banks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» 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 (Kolokolo Bird, thorny African bush), 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	3 Bird	det
2	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Bird	compound
3	Bird	bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Bird	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 wait	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bush	det
11	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bush	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 a	punct
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bush	compound
16	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bush	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 thorn	punct
18	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wait	parataxis
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 bush	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bush	det
21	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bush	amod
22	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bush	amod
23	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bush	appos
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 catches	nsubj
25	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bush	acl:relcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 catches	obl
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 bush	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bush	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Go	punct
33	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 banks	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 banks	det
36	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Go	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	42 green	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 River	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 River	amod
40	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 green	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 grey	punct
42	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 River	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 River	punct
44	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 River	amod
45	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 River	compound
46	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 banks	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 set	punct
48	all	all	ADV	_	49 set	advmod
49	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 banks	parataxis
50	about	about	ADP	_	54 trees	case
51	with	with	ADP	_	54 trees	case
52	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 trees	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 fever	punct
54	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 set	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 find	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 find	cc
57	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Go	conj
58	out	out	ADP	_	57 find	compound:prt
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 find	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	the Kolokolo Bird not said here	the middle of wait		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	catch	present	a thorny African bush		at you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at you=Asset
3	say speech: assert	past	the Kolokolo Bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	infinitive		the banks the great green greasy Limpopo River		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
5	find out in a quote	infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:10.

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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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