--- title: Inside, the sailor jumps, bangs and dances so wildly that the Whale… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: Inside, the sailor jumps, bangs and dances so wildly that the Whale gets hiccups, so the Whale carries him all the way home to the white cliffs and lets him walk out. Who acts: sailor, 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 (sailor, 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:3 # text = Inside, the sailor jumps, bangs and dances so wildly that the Whale gets hiccups, so the Whale carries him all the way home to the white cliffs and lets him walk out. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Inside inside ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 4 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bangs bang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 hiccups hiccup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 26 home home ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | present | the sailor | | | | | inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bang** | present | the sailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dance** | present | the sailor *not said here* | | | | | wildly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | the Whale | hiccups | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hiccup=Stimulus | | 5 | **carry** | present | the Whale | sailor | | the white cliffs | | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cliff=Destination | | 6 | **let** | present | the Whale *not said here* | Whale | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **walk out** | infinitive | Whale *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=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:3`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-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:…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/2/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)