Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 11
This is the seventh of Kipling's twelve Just So Stories (1902); it begins again with «O Best Beloved» and «the High and Far-Off Times», like the Elephant's Child.
Who acts: This, seventh · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: seventh
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» 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 (This, seventh), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seventh | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seventh | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seventh | det |
| 4 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Stories | case |
| 6 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Stories | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Kipling | case |
| 8 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Stories | nummod |
| 9 | Just | Just | PROPN | _ | 11 Stories | flat |
| 10 | So | so | PROPN | _ | 11 Stories | flat |
| 11 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seventh | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 1902 | punct |
| 13 | 1902 | 1902 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Stories | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 1902 | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 begins | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 begins | nsubj |
| 17 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seventh | parataxis |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 begins | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Beloved | case |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 Beloved | punct |
| 21 | O | o | INTJ | Abbr=Yes | 23 Beloved | vocative |
| 22 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 Beloved | amod |
| 23 | Beloved | beloved | PROPN | _ | 17 begins | obl |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 Beloved | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Times | cc |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 Times | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Times | det |
| 28 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Times | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Times | cc |
| 30 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 Times | advmod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Off | punct |
| 32 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 33 Times | case |
| 33 | Times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Beloved | conj |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 Times | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Child | punct |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 Child | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Elephant | det |
| 38 | Elephant | elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Child | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Elephant | case |
| 40 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 » | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seventh | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the seventh | of Kipling's twelve Just So Stories | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | present | seventh | again | with Best Beloved and the High Times | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with beloved=Subeventuality |
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:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:11.
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 ×2, 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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