--- title: His rhyme is "By means of a grating / I have stopped your ating"; Ki… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: His rhyme is "By means of a grating / I have stopped your ating"; Kipling says he was "an Hi-ber-ni-an" (an Irishman), joking that his accent made "eating" sound like "ating". Who acts: rhyme, Kipling, accent, Mariner. 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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 (rhyme, Kipling, accent, Mariner), 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:16 # text = His rhyme is "By means of a grating / I have stopped your ating"; Kipling says he was "an Hi-ber-ni-an" (an Irishman), joking that his accent made "eating" sound like "ating". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 By by ADP IN _ 6 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 grating grating NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 / / PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 ating ating NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 ccomp _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 24 Hi hi INTJ UH _ 28 discourse _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 ber ber NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ni no NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Irishman Irishman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 eating eating NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 like like ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 ating ating NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:nmod 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mariner's rhyme | | | | | of a grating; mean *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Kipling | your ating | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ating=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Kipling *not said here* | a ber ni | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | past | Mariner's accent | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sound** | infinitive | Mariner's accent *not said here* | | | | | like ating | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **rhyme** | | Mariner | | | | | | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **accent** | | Mariner | | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/15/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)