--- title: The Mariner says "Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mariner says "Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion": "natal" = where he was born, "Albion" = an old name for Britain, whose white chalk cliffs stand at Dover. Who acts: Mariner, white chalk cliffs. 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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 (Mariner, white chalk cliffs), 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:14 # text = The Mariner says "Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion": "natal" = where he was born, "Albion" = an old name for Britain, whose white chalk cliffs stand at Dover. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 natal natal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 14 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 Albion Albion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 natal natal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 = = SYM SYM _ 30 punct _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Albion Albion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 = = SYM SYM _ 38 punct _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 45 nmod:poss _ _ 43 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 46 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Dover Dover PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mariner | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the Mariner *= mariner* | | my natal shore and the white cliffs and Albion | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to shore=Destination | | 3 | **bear** | past · passive | | Mariner | | | | Albion *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **stand** | present | white chalk cliffs | | | Dover | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at dover=Location | 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:14`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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:…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/13/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)