Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 21

He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama’s Country, and from Khama’s Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said.

Who acts: Crocodile, Kolokolo · What happens: go, eat, come, say · To what, where: Kimberley, Town, Country, melons, last · 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 (Crocodile, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 Town	case
4	Graham	Graham	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Town	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Graham	case
6	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Kimberley	case
8	Kimberley	Kimberley	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Kimberley	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Kimberley	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Kimberley	case
12	Kimberley	Kimberley	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 Country	case
14	Khama	Khama	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Country	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Khama	case
16	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Kimberley	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 Country	case
20	Khama	Khama	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Country	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Khama	case
22	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
25	east	east	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 north	case
27	north	north	ADV	_	24 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eating	punct
29	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 went	advcl
30	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eating	obj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 time	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eating	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 last	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 came	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eating	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 banks	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 banks	det
42	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 came	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	52 River	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 River	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 River	amod
46	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 green	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 grey	punct
48	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 great	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 River	punct
50	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 River	amod
51	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 River	compound
52	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 banks	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 set	punct
54	all	all	ADV	_	55 set	advmod
55	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 River	amod
56	about	about	ADP	_	60 trees	case
57	with	with	ADP	_	60 trees	case
58	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 trees	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 fever	punct
60	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 set	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 said	punct
62	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	67 said	advmod
63	as	as	SCONJ	_	67 said	mark
64	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 said	nsubj
65	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 Kolokolo	flat
66	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 said	aux
67	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 came	parataxis
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Crocodile		Kimberley	Graham's Town		from Kimberley to Khama's Country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location to kimberley=Destination
2	go	past	Crocodile			Khama's Country		east property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
3	eat	gerund	Crocodile not said here	melons			time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient
4	come	past	Crocodile			last		to the banks of the great greasy Limpopo River	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Kolokolo					precisely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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