--- title: The book calls this «the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The book calls this «the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow»: «the gift of forgetfulness» (a demi-god is a half-god; bestow = give). Who acts: book, kindly demi god, demi god. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, kindly demi god, demi god), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:8 # text = The book calls this «the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow»: «the gift of forgetfulness» (a demi-god is a half-god; bestow = give). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 kindly kindly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 demi demi X AFX _ 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 bestow bestow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 forgetfulness forgetfulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det 30 demi demi X AFX _ 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 39 bestow bestow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 40 = = SYM SYM _ 41 punct _ _ 41 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | the book | this | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme gift=Result | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the kindly demi god | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bestow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the kindly demi god *not said here* | that | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a demi god | a half god | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bestow** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **gift** *in a quote* | | | forgetfulness | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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