Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 0

Kipling wrote the «Just So Stories» to be read aloud, the way he first told them to his own children at bedtime, so the words are made to be heard: they repeat, they rhyme, they bump together and they play tricks.

Who acts: Kipling, words · What happens: write, read, tell, make, hear, repeat · To what, where: Just So Stories, way, Stories, bedtime, words, tricks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» of the language 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, words), 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 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Stories	det
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Stories	punct
5	Just	Just	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Stories	flat
6	So	So	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Stories	flat
7	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 Stories	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	11 read	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 read	aux:pass
11	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wrote	advcl
12	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	11 read	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 told	advmod
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	acl:relcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 children	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 children	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 bedtime	case
25	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 made	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 words	det
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wrote	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	34 heard	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 heard	aux:pass
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 made	xcomp
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 repeat	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 repeat	nsubj
37	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rhyme	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 rhyme	nsubj
40	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 repeat	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bump	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bump	nsubj
43	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 repeat	conj
44	together	together	ADV	_	43 bump	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 play	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 play	nsubj
47	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 repeat	conj
48	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 play	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	Kipling	the Just So Stories			the way obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	read	to-infinitive · passive	Kipling not said here				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»
3	tell speech: assert	past	Kipling	the way not said here	Stories = story	bedtime	to Kipling's own children; first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to child=Recipient
4	make	present · passive		the words				tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive · passive	the words not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
6	repeat	present	words = word					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	rhyme	present	words = word					vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	bump	present	words = word				together property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
9	play	present	words = word	tricks				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme

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:language:042-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo.lesson:0.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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