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Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 2

He packs bananas, sugar-cane and melons, says goodbye, and walks across Africa, dropping melon rind all the way because he cannot pick anything up with his little nose.

Who acts: Child · What happens: pack, say, walk, drop, not pick up · To what, where: bananas, goodbye, Africa, melon rind, anything · 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 (Child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjobjpunctcompoundpunctconjccconjpunctconjobjpunctccconjcaseoblpunctadvclcompoundobjdet:predetdetobl:unmarkedmarknsubjauxadvmodadvclobjcompound:prtcasenmod:possamodoblpunctrootHePRONpacksVERBbananasNOUN,PUNCTsugarNOUN-PUNCTcaneNOUNandCCONJmelonsNOUN,PUNCTsaysVERBgoodbyeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwalksVERBacrossADPAfricaPROPN,PUNCTdroppingVERBmelonNOUNrindNOUNallDETtheDETwayNOUNbecauseSCONJhePRONcanAUXnotPARTpickVERBanythingPRONupADPwithADPhisPRONlittleADJnoseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 packsnsubj
2packspackVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3bananasbananaNOUNNumber=Plur2 packsobj
4,,PUNCT_7 canepunct
5sugarsugarNOUNNumber=Sing7 canecompound
6--PUNCT_5 sugarpunct
7canecaneNOUNNumber=Sing3 bananasconj
8andandCCONJ_9 melonscc
9melonsmelonNOUNNumber=Plur7 caneconj
10,,PUNCT_11 sayspunct
11sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 packsconj
12goodbyegoodbyeNOUNNumber=Sing11 saysobj
13,,PUNCT_15 walkspunct
14andandCCONJ_15 walkscc
15walkswalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 packsconj
16acrossacrossADP_17 Africacase
17AfricaAfricaPROPNNumber=Sing15 walksobl
18,,PUNCT_19 droppingpunct
19droppingdropVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 walksadvcl
20melonmelonNOUNNumber=Sing21 rindcompound
21rindrindNOUNNumber=Sing19 droppingobj
22allallDETPronType=Tot24 waydet:predet
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 waydet
24waywayNOUNNumber=Sing19 droppingobl:unmarked
25becausebecauseSCONJ_29 pickmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 picknsubj
27cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin29 pickaux
28notnotPARTPolarity=Neg29 pickadvmod
29pickpickVERBVerbForm=Inf19 droppingadvcl
30anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind29 pickobj
31upupADP_29 pickcompound:prt
32withwithADP_35 nosecase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 nosenmod:poss
34littlelittleADJDegree=Pos35 noseamod
35nosenoseNOUNNumber=Sing29 pickobl
36..PUNCT_2 packspunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1packpresentChildbananas and sugar cane and melonsvn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent banana=Theme
2say speech: assertpresentChild not said heregoodbyevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic
3walkpresentChild not said hereAfricavn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across africa=Trajectory
4dropgerundChild not said heremelon rindall way obl:unmarkedvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme
5not pick upcanChildanythingwith Child's little nosevn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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:2.

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, 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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