--- title: He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley and to Khama's Country (real… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley and to Khama's Country (real places in South Africa and Botswana), and till that day he "had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like". Who acts: Bird. 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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 (Bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:13 # text = He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley and to Khama's Country (real places in South Africa and Botswana), and till that day he "had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 079-justso-elephants-child-1.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Graham Graham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 Town Town PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Kimberley Kimberley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 Khama Khama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 Country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Botswana Botswana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 25 till till ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Crocodile crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 40 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 ccomp _ _ 44 " " PUNCT " _ 39 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **go** | past | Bird | | Kimberley | Graham's Town | | to Khama's Country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial\_Location to kimberley=Destination | | 2 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Bird | a Crocodile | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | 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:079-justso-elephants-child-1.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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), 5:…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/12/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)