--- title: He packs bananas, sugar-cane and melons, says goodbye, and walks acr… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: He packs bananas, sugar-cane and melons, says goodbye, and walks across Africa, dropping melon rind all the way because he cannot pick anything up with his little nose. Who acts: Child. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocod --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/) / 2 # Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 2 He packs bananas, sugar-cane and melons, says goodbye, and walks across Africa, dropping melon rind all the way because he cannot pick anything up with his little nose. **Who acts:** Child · **What happens:** pack, say, walk, drop, not pick up · **To what, where:** bananas, goodbye, Africa, melon rind, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child), 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:2 # text = He packs bananas, sugar-cane and melons, says goodbye, and walks across Africa, dropping melon rind all the way because he cannot pick anything up with his little nose. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 packs pack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 melons melon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 across across ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 20 melon melon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 rind rind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 30 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 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 | **pack** | present | Child | bananas and sugar cane and melons | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent banana=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Child *not said here* | goodbye | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | | 3 | **walk** | present | Child *not said here* | | | Africa | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across africa=Trajectory | | 4 | **drop** | gerund | Child *not said here* | melon rind | | | | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme | | 5 | **not** **pick up** | can | Child | anything | | | | with Child's little nose | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-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), 5:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/1/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)