Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 17

That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye.

Who acts: Child · What happens: leave, precede, accord, take, say · To what, where: Precession, hundred pounds, dear families · 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 (Child), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 morning	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 next	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 preceded	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 was	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 preceded	aux:pass
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 was	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 nothing	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Equinoxes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Equinoxes	det
13	Equinoxes	Equinox	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 left	obl:agent
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 preceded	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 preceded	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Precession	det
17	Precession	Precession	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 preceded	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 preceded	aux
19	preceded	precede	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 precedent	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 according	fixed
22	precedent	precedent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 preceded	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 this	punct
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 precedent	nmod
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
26	satiable	satiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Elephant	amod
27	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Child	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Elephant	case
29	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 this	acl:relcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hundred	det
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 pounds	nummod
33	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 took	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 bananas	case
35	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pounds	nmod
36	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 kind	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 kind	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 kind	amod
39	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 kind	amod
40	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 kind	amod
41	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bananas	appos
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 kind	punct
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 pounds	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 pounds	cc
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 hundred	det
46	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 pounds	nummod
47	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 took	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 cane	case
49	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cane	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 sugar	punct
51	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pounds	nmod
52	(	(	PUNCT	_	56 kind	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 kind	det
54	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 kind	amod
55	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 kind	amod
56	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cane	appos
57	)	)	PUNCT	_	56 kind	punct
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 melons	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 melons	cc
60	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 melons	nummod
61	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 took	obj
62	(	(	PUNCT	_	67 kind	punct
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 kind	det
64	greeny	greeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 kind	amod
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 greeny	punct
66	crackly	crackly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 kind	amod
67	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 melons	appos
68	)	)	PUNCT	_	67 kind	punct
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 said	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 said	cc
71	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 melons	conj
72	to	to	ADP	_	76 families	case
73	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	76 families	det:predet
74	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 families	nmod:poss
75	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 families	amod
76	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 said	obl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 Goodbye	punct
78	‘	'	PUNCT	_	79 Goodbye	punct
79	Goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 families	conj
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 preceded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	precede	past · perfect · passive		the Precession		morning	accord precedent this	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
3	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	satiable Elephant's Child	hundred pounds of bananas				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	satiable Elephant's Child not said here		Elephant's dear families and Goodbye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient

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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