--- title: Real places and creatures: the Limpopo is a real river in southern A… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: Real places and creatures: the Limpopo is a real river in southern Africa; fever trees are real yellow-barked trees of wet ground, named long ago because people near them caught fever (malaria) from mosquitoes; the African rock python is Africa's biggest snake. 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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 (Limpopo, fever trees, people, African rock python), 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:21 # text = Real places and creatures: the Limpopo is a real river in southern Africa; fever trees are real yellow-barked trees of wet ground, named long ago because people near them caught fever (malaria) from mosquitoes; the African rock python is Africa's biggest snake. # 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 ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Limpopo Limpopo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 20 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 barked bark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 ago ago ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 near near ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 malaria malaria NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 mosquitoes mosquito NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 48 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ _ 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 51 amod _ _ 51 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Limpopo | a real river | | southern Africa | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bark** | participle | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | fever trees | real barked trees and Africa's biggest snake | | | | of wet ground | tree rules | | 4 | **name** | participle | | real barked trees and Africa's biggest snake *not said here* | | | | ago *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **catch** | past | people near trees | fever | | | | from mosquitoes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fever=Theme from mosquito=Source | | 6 | **is a** | present | the African rock python | Africa's biggest snake | | | | | 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:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:21`. **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 ×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:…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/20/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)