--- title: He wears blue canvas "breeches" (trousers) and "suspenders" (braces… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: He wears blue canvas "breeches" (trousers) and "suspenders" (braces that hold trousers up), and carries a "jack-knife" (a folding pocket-knife); Kipling keeps saying "you must not forget the suspenders". Who acts: Whale, braces, Kipling, you. 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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 (Whale, braces, Kipling, you), 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:12 # text = He wears blue canvas "breeches" (trousers) and "suspenders" (braces that hold trousers up), and carries a "jack-knife" (a folding pocket-knife); Kipling keeps saying "you must not forget the suspenders". # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 canvas canvas NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 breeches breech NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 suspenders suspender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 braces brace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 jack jack NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 folding folding NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 34 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 41 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:advcl 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 ccomp _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 suspenders suspender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | Whale | blue canvas and breeches and suspenders | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent canvas=Source | | 2 | **hold up** | present | braces | trousers | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot trousers=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | present | Whale *not said here* | a jack knife | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | Kipling | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | must | you | the suspenders | | | | | tree rules | 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:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/11/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)