--- title: The Whale swims to a far spot in the ocean and swallows a shipwrecke… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Whale swims to a far spot in the ocean and swallows a shipwrecked sailor in one gulp, together with his raft, his blue trousers, his braces and his pocket-knife. Who acts: Whale. 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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), 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:2 # text = The Whale swims to a far spot in the ocean and swallows a shipwrecked sailor in one gulp, together with his raft, his blue trousers, his braces and his pocket-knife. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 shipwrecked shipwrecked ADJ JJ _ 15 amod _ _ 15 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 gulp gulp NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 raft raft NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 braces brace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | present | the Whale | | | a far spot in the ocean | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | | 2 | **swallow** | present | the Whale *not said here* | a shipwrecked sailor | | one gulp | | with Whale's raft and Whale's blue trousers and Whale's braces and Whale's pocket knife | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=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:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:2`. **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): no change. **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:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/1/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)