Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 13

He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley and to Khama's Country (real places in South Africa and Botswana), and till that day he "had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like".

Who acts: Bird · What happens: go, not see, not know · To what, where: Kimberley, Town, Crocodile

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 (Bird), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 Town	case
4	Graham	Graham	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Town	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Graham	case
6	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Kimberley	case
8	Kimberley	Kimberley	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Country	cc
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 Country	case
11	Khama	Khama	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Country	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Khama	case
13	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 places	punct
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 places	amod
16	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Country	appos
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Africa	case
18	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Africa	compound
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 places	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Botswana	cc
21	Botswana	Botswana	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Africa	conj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 places	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 know	cc
25	till	till	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 seen	advmod
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 Crocodile	det
34	Crocodile	crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 know	cc
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 know	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 know	advmod
39	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seen	conj
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 know	obj
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 like	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 "	cop
43	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 know	ccomp
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Bird		Kimberley	Graham's Town		to Khama's Country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location to kimberley=Destination
2	not see in a quote	past · perfect	Bird	a Crocodile			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus
3	not know in a quote	past · do-support	Bird not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=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:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:13.

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, 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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