--- title: The hunter sums it up: "The long and the little of it is that we don… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The hunter sums it up: "The long and the little of it is that we don't match our backgrounds" ("the long and the little of it" = the whole truth in short). Who acts: hunter, we. 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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 (hunter, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:13 # text = The hunter sums it up: "The long and the little of it is that we don't match our backgrounds" ("the long and the little of it" = the whole truth in short). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 078-justso-leopard-spots-2.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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sums sum VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 backgrounds background NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 appos _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 34 = = SYM SYM _ 37 dep _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 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 | **sum up** | present | the hunter | breakfast | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · do-support | we | | | | | match *property* | 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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:13`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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), 4:…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/12/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/)