Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, sentence 9

«'Satiable curtiosity» is baby-talk for «insatiable curiosity», wanting to know things so much you are never satisfied; «curtiosity» is a made-up mistake, and Kipling uses it on purpose to sound like a small child.

Who acts: Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you, curtiosity », Kipling · What happens: be, want, know, not be, make, use · To what, where: baby talk, things, made mistake, curtiosity, purpose · 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 (Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you, curtiosity »), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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.

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