Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 14
On the way he also went out of his way to spank a Hippopotamus who was no relation of his, to make sure the Snake had told the truth about his new trunk.
Who acts: Snake, Hippopotamus · What happens: go out, spank, be, make, tell · To what, where: way, Hippopotamus, relation, truth · 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 (Snake, Hippopotamus), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 spank | mark |
| 12 | spank | spank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Hippopotamus | det |
| 14 | Hippopotamus | hippopotamus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spank | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 relation | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 relation | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 relation | det |
| 18 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hippopotamus | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 his | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 relation | nmod:poss |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | advcl |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Snake | det |
| 26 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 told | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 told | aux |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 sure | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | obj |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 trunk | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 trunk | amod |
| 34 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 truth | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 out | past | Snake | Snake's way | the way | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spank | to-infinitive | Snake not said here | a Hippopotamus | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a Hippopotamus | Snake's relation | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Snake not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | the Snake | the truth | about Snake's new trunk | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about trunk=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:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:14.
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, 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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