Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 15

Kipling uses capital letters to make things grand and important, as with «the Djinn in charge of All Deserts», the way a sign uses capitals for a title.

Who acts: Kipling, way · What happens: use, make, charge · To what, where: capital letters, things, capitals, Deserts

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, way), 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 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letters	compound
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 uses	advcl
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 important	cc
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grand	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Djinn	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	16 Djinn	case
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 Djinn	case
14	«	«	ADP	_	16 Djinn	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Djinn	det
16	Djinn	djinn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 charge	case
18	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Djinn	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Deserts	case
20	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 Deserts	det
21	Deserts	desert	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 charge	nmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 Djinn	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 uses	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 uses	nsubj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sign	det
27	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 uses	nsubj
28	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Djinn	advcl
29	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 uses	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 title	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 title	det
32	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 uses	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Kipling	capital letters		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	Kipling not said here	things	grand property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product
3	use	present	the way	capitals	for a title	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent capital=Theme for title=Eventuality
4	charge in a quote			all Deserts		nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient

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:15.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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