Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 10

Alliteration means several words close together starting with the same sound, as in «great grey-green, greasy»; it makes a phrase easy to remember and fun to say.

Who acts: Alliteration, phrase · What happens: mean, close, start, make, remember, say · To what, where: several words, great grey green, phrase · 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 (Alliteration, phrase), 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	Alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
5	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 words	amod
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
7	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 close	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 sound	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sound	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sound	amod
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 starting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 green	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 green	mark
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 as	fixed
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 green	punct
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 green	amod
17	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 green	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 grey	punct
19	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 greasy	punct
21	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 green	amod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 green	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 makes	nsubj
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 phrase	det
27	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	obj
28	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 makes	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 remember	mark
30	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 easy	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fun	cc
32	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 easy	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 say	mark
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fun	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Alliteration	several words		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	close	present		great grey green	together property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	start	gerund			with the same sound	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality
4	make	present	Alliteration	a phrase	easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material phrase=Product
5	remember	to-infinitive	a phrase not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a phrase not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:language:042-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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