Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 16

Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.’

Who acts: Kolokolo · What happens: say, go, find out · To what, where: banks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kolokolo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Kolokolo	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cry	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 cry	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cry	det
8	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cry	amod
9	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
12	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 banks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 banks	det
15	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Go	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	25 River	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 River	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 River	amod
19	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 green	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 grey	punct
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 River	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 River	punct
23	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 River	amod
24	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 River	compound
25	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 banks	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 set	advmod
28	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Go	conj
29	about	about	ADP	_	33 trees	case
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 trees	case
31	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trees	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 fever	punct
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 set	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 find	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 find	cc
36	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Go	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 find	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kolokolo		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive		the banks of the great green greasy Limpopo River		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
3	find out	infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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