Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 14

Kipling's Stone Age names are long descriptions joined by hyphens: Taffimai Metallumai means «Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked», so he shortens it to Taffy.

Who acts: Age names, Taffimai, Kipling · What happens: be, join, mean, spank, shorten, name · To what, where: long descriptions, Small person, person, Taffy · 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 (Age names, Taffimai, 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	5 names	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kipling	case
3	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Age	compound
4	Age	age	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 names	compound
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 descriptions	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 descriptions	cop
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 descriptions	amod
8	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 descriptions	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 hyphens	case
11	hyphens	hyphen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 joined	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct
13	Taffimai	Taffimai	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 means	nsubj
14	Metallumai	Metallumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Taffimai	flat
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 descriptions	parataxis
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 person	punct
17	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 person	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Small	punct
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	obj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 manners	punct
21	without	without	ADP	_	25 manners	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 without	punct
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 manners	det
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 any	punct
25	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 person	nmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 shortens	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 ought	nsubj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 who	punct
29	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 spanked	aux
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 ought	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	35 spanked	mark
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 to	punct
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 spanked	aux:pass
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 spanked	punct
35	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 person	acl
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 person	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 who	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	40 shortens	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shortens	nsubj
40	shortens	shorten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 manners	acl:relcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shortens	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 Taffy	case
43	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 shortens	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 descriptions	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Kipling's Age names	long descriptions			tree rules
2	join	participle		long descriptions not said here		by hyphens	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	mean	present	Taffimai	Small person		without any manners	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic
4	spank in a quote	ought · passive	Taffimai not said here	Small person not said here			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»
5	shorten	present	Taffimai	person	Taffy		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	name		Kipling				nom name «communication 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:language:042-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo.lesson:14.

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, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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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