Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 12

An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it names: the Cat's milk-pot cracks «ffft», and «Humph!» sounds like a grumpy snort.

Who acts: onomatopoeia, word, » · What happens: be, sound, name · To what, where: word, noise, pot cracks

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 (onomatopoeia, word, »), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 onomatopoeia	det
2	onomatopoeia	onomatopoeia	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sounds	nsubj
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	acl:relcl
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 names	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 names	nsubj
12	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 noise	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 cracks	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Cat	det
15	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cracks	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Cat	case
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pot	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 milk	punct
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cracks	compound
20	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 names	obj
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 ffft	punct
22	ffft	ffft	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 »	compound
23	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cracks	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 «	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 «	cc
26	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 word	appos
27	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 «	flat
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Humph	punct
29	»	»	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sounds	nsubj
30	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 snort	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 snort	det
33	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 snort	amod
34	snort	snort	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sounds	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a onomatopoeia	a word		tree rules
2	sound	present	a word	the noise		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	name	present	onomatopoeia	the Cat's pot cracks and ffft »		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Theme
4	sound	present	»		like a grumpy snort	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:12.

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 ×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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