Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 7

A clipped word is a long word with a part cut off: «'Stute» comes from «astute» (clever), «'scruciating» from «excruciating»; the apostrophe shows where letters are missing, just as in «don't» and «it's».

Who acts: clipped word, Stute, apostrophe, letters · What happens: clip, be, cut off, come, scruciat, excruciate · To what, where: long word, part, astute », », «

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 (clipped word, Stute, apostrophe, letters), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 part	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 part	det
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 part	acl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 cut	compound:prt
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 «	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 Stute	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Stute	punct
16	Stute	Stute	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 comes	nsubj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 Stute	punct
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	parataxis
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 »	case
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 astute	punct
21	astute	astute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 »	amod
22	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	obl
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 clever	punct
24	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 astute	appos
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 clever	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scruciating	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 scruciating	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 scruciating	punct
29	scruciating	scruciat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 comes	conj
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 scruciating	punct
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 «	case
32	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 excruciating	obl
33	excruciating	excruciate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 scruciating	nmod
34	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 excruciating	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 shows	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 apostrophe	det
37	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shows	nsubj
38	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 comes	conj
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 missing	advmod
40	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 missing	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 missing	cop
42	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 shows	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 as	punct
44	just	just	ADV	_	45 as	advmod
45	as	as	ADV	_	50 »	advmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 «	case
47	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 as	obl
48	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 »	aux
49	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 do	advmod
50	»	»	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 «	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 «	cc
52	«	«	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	50 »	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 's	nsubj
54	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 do	conj
55	»	»	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 «	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clip	participle					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	a clipped word	a long word		with a part	tree rules
3	cut off	participle		a part not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	come	present	Stute		astute »		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from »=Initial_Location
5	scruciat in a quote	gerund	Stute not said here				tree rules
6	excruciate in a quote	gerund		»	«		tree rules
7	show	present	the apostrophe				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	letters			missing property	tree rules
9	»	present · do-support	Stute not said here				tree rules
10	«	infinitive	Stute not said here	»			tree rules

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:7.

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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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