Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 18
The poem: "I keep six honest serving-men ...
Who acts: Baboon · What happens: keep · To what, where: six honest serving men
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 (Baboon), 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 | 2 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 poem | appos |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 8 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 9 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 serving | punct |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | obj |
| 12 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 poem | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | the Baboon = baboon | six honest serving men | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
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:18.
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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