--- title: They held "a palaver, and an indaba, and a punchayet, and a pow-wow"… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics description: They held "a palaver, and an indaba, and a punchayet, and a pow-wow": four words from different lands that all mean a meeting to talk things over. Who acts: animals, four words. 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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 (animals, four words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:9 # text = They held "a palaver, and an indaba, and a punchayet, and a pow-wow": four words from different lands that all mean a meeting to talk things over. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 075-justso-camel-hump.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 palaver palaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 indaba indaba NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 punchayet punchayet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 pow pow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 wow wow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 29 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 over over ADV RB _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | animals *= animal* | a palaver and a indaba and a punchayet | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palaver=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | four words from different lands | a meeting | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Topic | | 3 | **talk over** | to-infinitive | four words from different lands *not said here* | things | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=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. 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