--- title: Baleen is made of keratin, the same stuff as our fingernails, and wh… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: Baleen is made of keratin, the same stuff as our fingernails, and whales are born with it; no sailor put it there, and a blue whale's throat is far too narrow to swallow a person. Who acts: sailor, throat. 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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 (sailor, throat), 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:21 # text = Baleen is made of keratin, the same stuff as our fingernails, and whales are born with it; no sailor put it there, and a blue whale's throat is far too narrow to swallow a person. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:xcomp 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . 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 | **make** | present · passive | | Baleen | | | | of keratin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **bear** | present · passive | | whales | | | | with baleen | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **put** | past | no sailor | baleen | | there | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 4 | **is** | present | a blue whale's throat | | | | | far, narrow *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | a blue whale's throat *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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:21`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/20/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)