Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 34
Kipling's tale, like the Rhinoceros's folds and the Kangaroo's legs, is a made-up «just so» reason.
Who acts: tale, Kipling · What happens: make up, be, tell · To what, where: made » reason · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tale, Kipling), 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 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kipling | case |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reason | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 folds | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 folds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rhinoceros | det |
| 7 | Rhinoceros | Rhinoceros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 folds | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rhinoceros | case |
| 9 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tale | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 legs | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kangaroo | det |
| 12 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 legs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Kangaroo | case |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 folds | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tale | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 reason | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 reason | det |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 reason | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 reason | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 so | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 » | advmod |
| 24 | » | » | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reason | amod |
| 25 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Kipling's tale | a made » reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell | Kipling | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:34.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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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