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title: The sailor (the "Mariner") is "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagaci… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sailor (the "Mariner") is "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity", which means he is endlessly clever and full of good sense. Who acts: sailor, man, resource. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary sch
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat, sentence 10

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The sailor (the "Mariner") is "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity", which means he is endlessly clever and full of good sense.

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**Who acts:** sailor, man, resource · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailor, man, resource), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:10
# text = The sailor (the "Mariner") is "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity", which means he is endlessly clever and full of good sense.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 074-justso-whale-throat.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	endlessly	endlessly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:amod
28	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the sailor | a man |  |  |  | of sagacity | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | resource |  |  |  |  | clever, endlessly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | resource *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of good sense | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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