Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 10
He first said "Thank you" to the Snake, then wrapped his nose in cool banana leaves and hung it in the river; the Snake said "Some people do not know what is good for them."
Who acts: nose, Snake, people · What happens: say, thank, wrap, hang, not know, be · To what, where: you, nose, cool banana leaves, plop, river · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» 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 (nose, Snake, people), 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thank | punct |
| 5 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 Thank | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thank | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Snake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Snake | det |
| 10 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Thank | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrapped | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 wrapped | advmod |
| 13 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrapped | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 leaves | case |
| 17 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaves | amod |
| 18 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaves | compound |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wrapped | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hung | cc |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrapped | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hung | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 river | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 river | det |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrapped | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Snake | det |
| 28 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 31 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 people | det |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 know | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 know | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 know | advmod |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 good | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 good | cop |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 know | ccomp |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 good | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | nose | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | to the Snake | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wrap | past | nose not said here | nose's nose | cool banana leaves | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme in leaf=Destination | ||
| 4 | hang | past | nose not said here | plop | the river | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in river=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | some people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | for people; good property | 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:080-justso-elephants-child-2.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): 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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