--- title: The 'Stute Fish calls the Whale "Noble and generous Cetacean" ("Ceta… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: The 'Stute Fish calls the Whale "Noble and generous Cetacean" ("Cetacean" = a member of the whale and dolphin family) and says Man is "Nice but nubbly" (nubbly = lumpy). Who acts: Stute Fish, Man. 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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 (Stute Fish, Man), 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:8 # text = The 'Stute Fish calls the Whale "Noble and generous Cetacean" ("Cetacean" = a member of the whale and dolphin family) and says Man is "Nice but nubbly" (nubbly = lumpy). # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 Stute Stute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Fish Fish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 9 Noble Noble PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 generous generous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 12 Cetacean Cetacean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Cetacean Cetacean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 = = SYM SYM _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 nubbly nubbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 nubbly nubbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 39 = = SYM SYM _ 40 punct _ _ 40 lumpy lumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | Stute Fish | the Whale | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme cetacean=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Stute Fish *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Man | | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | Man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | Man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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 ×1, 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:…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/7/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)