Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 4
And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities.
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: live, fill · To what, where: Africa
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 (Elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:193): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lived | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Africa | case |
| 5 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 filled | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | nsubj |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Africa | det |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 curtiosities | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 curtiosities | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 curtiosities | punct |
| 15 | satiable | satiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 curtiosities | amod |
| 16 | curtiosities | curtiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 filled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Elephant | Africa | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | Elephant | all Africa | with Elephant's satiable curtiosities | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent africa=Patient with curtiosity=Instrument |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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