Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 11

The story ends with a song: Kipling has never sailed the Amazon or seen a jaguar or an armadillo, but he would love to «roll down to Rio» one day before he is old, on one of the big steamers that sail «weekly from Southampton» (an English port).

Who acts: story, Kipling, Jaguar, big steamers · What happens: end, not sail, see, love, roll down, be · To what, where: Amazon, jaguar, Rio, Southampton

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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 (story, Kipling, Jaguar, big steamers), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	nsubj
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 song	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 sailed	punct
8	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sailed	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sailed	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 sailed	advmod
11	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ends	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Amazon	det
13	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sailed	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 seen	cc
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sailed	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 jaguar	det
17	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 armadillo	cc
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 armadillo	det
20	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jaguar	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 love	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 love	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 love	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 love	aux
25	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ends	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	28 roll	mark
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 roll	punct
28	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 love	xcomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 roll	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Rio	case
31	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 roll	obl
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 roll	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 day	nummod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roll	obl:unmarked
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 old	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 old	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 old	cop
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 love	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 one	case
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 roll	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 steamers	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 steamers	det
44	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 steamers	amod
45	steamers	steamer	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 one	nmod
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 sail	nsubj
47	sail	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 steamers	acl:relcl
48	«	«	PUNCT	_	47 sail	punct
49	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	47 sail	advmod
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 Southampton	case
51	Southampton	Southampton	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 sail	obl
52	»	»	PUNCT	_	51 Southampton	punct
53	(	(	PUNCT	_	56 port	punct
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 port	det
55	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 port	amod
56	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 Southampton	appos
57	)	)	PUNCT	_	56 port	punct
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	the story				with a song	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with song=Subeventuality
2	not sail	present · perfect	Kipling	the Amazon				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amazon=Theme
3	see	participle	Kipling not said here	a jaguar or a armadillo				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jaguar=Stimulus
4	love	would	Jaguar					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	roll down not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here		Rio	day	on one of the big steamers; down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to rio=Source on one=Trajectory
6	is	present	Jaguar				old property	tree rules
7	sail	present	the big steamers		Southampton		weekly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from southampton=Trajectory

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:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-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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