Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 18

Some words in the book are British and some American: the sailor's «suspenders» are what British people call «braces», which hold trousers up.

Who acts: words, British people, suspenders, braces · What happens: be, call, hold up · To what, where: braces, trousers · 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 (words, British people, suspenders, braces), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 British	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 British	cop
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 American	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 American	det
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 British	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 British	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sailor	det
13	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 suspenders	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 sailor	case
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 suspenders	punct
16	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 braces	nsubj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 suspenders	punct
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 braces	cop
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 call	obj
20	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 call	nsubj
22	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 braces	acl:relcl
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 braces	punct
24	braces	brace	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 British	parataxis
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 braces	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 braces	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 hold	nsubj
28	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 braces	acl:relcl
29	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hold	obj
30	up	up	ADV	_	28 hold	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 British	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	some words in the book		british property	tree rules
2	be		some words in the book not said here			tree rules
3	call	present	British people	braces		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	the sailor's suspenders	braces		tree rules
5	hold up	present	braces	trousers		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot trousers=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:18.

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. 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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