Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 8

The Snake "knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch" (a sailor's knot) round his hind legs, calling the Crocodile a "self-propelling man-of-war with the armour-plated upper deck" (a warship with armour on top), "That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk."

Who acts: Snake, Crocodile, That, Python Rock Snakes · What happens: knot, call, propel, plate, be, talk · To what, where: Snake, double clove hitch, way · 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, Crocodile, That, Python Rock Snakes), 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 Snake	det
2	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knotted	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 knotted	punct
4	knotted	knot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 knotted	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	12 hitch	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hitch	det
8	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hitch	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 double	punct
10	clove	clove	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hitch	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 clove	punct
12	hitch	hitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knotted	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hitch	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 knot	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sailor	det
16	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knot	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 sailor	case
18	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hitch	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 knot	punct
20	round	round	ADP	_	23 legs	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 legs	nmod:poss
22	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 legs	amod
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knotted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 calling	punct
25	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 knotted	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Crocodile	det
27	Crocodile	crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 calling	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 propelling	punct
30	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 propelling	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 self	punct
32	propelling	propel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Crocodile	appos
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 war	punct
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 war	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 of	punct
37	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	nmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	44 deck	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 deck	det
40	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 plated	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 armour	punct
42	plated	plate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 deck	amod
43	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 deck	amod
44	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	nmod
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 deck	punct
46	(	(	PUNCT	_	48 warship	punct
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 warship	det
48	warship	warship	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 deck	appos
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 armour	case
50	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 warship	nmod
51	on	on	ADP	_	52 top	case
52	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 warship	nmod
53	)	)	PUNCT	_	48 warship	punct
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 propelling	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 way	punct
56	That	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	59 way	nsubj
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 way	cop
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 way	det
59	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knotted	parataxis
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	69 Snakes	det
61	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 Python	amod
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 Coloured	punct
63	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 Python	amod
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 Coloured	punct
65	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 Snakes	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 Python	punct
67	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 Snakes	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 Rock	punct
69	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 talk	nsubj
70	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	71 talk	advmod
71	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 way	acl:relcl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knotted	punct
73	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 knotted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knot in a quote	past	the Snake	Snake	a double clove hitch	round Snake's hind legs	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	call speech: assert	gerund	the Crocodile				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	propel in a quote	gerund					tree rules
4	plate in a quote	participle					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	That	the way			tree rules
6	talk in a quote	present	all Python Rock Snakes	the way not said here		always property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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:8.

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 ×3, 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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