Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 5

When you read a page of Kipling, try reading it out loud: you will hear the tricks, and you can use them in your own stories.

Who acts: you · What happens: read, try, read out, hear, use, page · To what, where: page, tricks, own stories, Kipling

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 (you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 read	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 try	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 page	det
5	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Kipling	case
7	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 page	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct
9	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 try	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reading	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 reading	compound:prt
13	loud	loud	ADV	_	10 reading	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 try	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tricks	det
19	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hear	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 use	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 use	aux
24	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hear	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 use	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 stories	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stories	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stories	amod
29	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 use	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	present	you	a page of Kipling			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic
2	try	imperative	you not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	read out not said to happen	gerund	you not said here	page		loud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	hear	future	you	the tricks			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
5	use	can	you	tricks = trick	your own stories		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	page			Kipling			nom page «communication 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:5.

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): 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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