Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 21

Kipling lists the Tribe's chiefs with grand, funny titles borrowed from many lands, «Platoffs with their Platoons, and Dolmans with their Detachments», and says «Aren't those beautiful words, Best Beloved?»

Who acts: Kipling, Dolmans · What happens: list, borrow, say, not be, detach · To what, where: chiefs, grand funny titles, many lands, beautiful words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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 (Kipling, Dolmans), 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	2 lists	nsubj
2	lists	list	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tribe	det
4	Tribe	tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chiefs	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tribe	case
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lists	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 titles	case
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 titles	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grand	punct
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 titles	amod
11	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chiefs	nmod
12	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 titles	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 lands	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lands	amod
15	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 borrowed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Platoffs	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 Platoffs	punct
18	Platoffs	platoff	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 titles	appos
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 Platoons	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Platoons	nmod:poss
21	Platoons	platoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Platoffs	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Dolmans	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Dolmans	cc
24	Dolmans	dolman	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 Platoffs	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 Detachments	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Detachments	nmod:poss
27	Detachments	detachment	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Dolmans	nmod
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 Platoffs	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 says	cc
31	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lists	conj
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
33	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 words	cop
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 words	advmod
35	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 words	det
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 words	amod
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 says	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Best	punct
39	Best	Best	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 words	appos
40	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Best	flat
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lists	punct
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 lists	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	list	present	Kipling	the Tribe's chiefs		with grand funny titles	tree rules
2	borrow	participle		grand funny titles not said here	many lands		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from land=Source
3	say speech: ask	present	Kipling not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is a in a quote	present		that beautiful words			tree rules
5	detach in a quote		Dolmans = dolman				nom detachment «feeling transitive»: 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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:21.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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