Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 20

Real biology: a trunk is the nose and upper lip joined together, with no bones and many thousands of muscle bundles, so it can lift a log or pick up a single peanut.

Who acts: trunk, Real biology · What happens: be, join, lift, pick up · To what, where: nose, log, single peanut

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 (trunk, Real biology), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 biology	amod
2	biology	biology	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 nose	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nose	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 nose	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nose	det
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 biology	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lip	cc
10	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lip	amod
11	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nose	conj
12	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 joined	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bones	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 bones	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 bones	det
17	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 joined	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thousands	cc
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thousands	amod
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bones	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 bundles	case
22	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bundles	compound
23	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thousands	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lift	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 lift	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lift	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 lift	aux
28	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 joined	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 log	det
30	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lift	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 pick	cc
32	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 lift	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 pick	compound:prt
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 peanut	det
35	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 peanut	amod
36	peanut	peanut	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pick	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a trunk	the nose and upper lip		tree rules
2	join	past	Real biology		with no bones and many thousands of muscle bundles; together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with bone=Co-Patient
3	lift	can	trunk	a log		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme
4	pick up	infinitive	trunk not said here	a single peanut		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peanut=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:20.

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): R6-punct-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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