--- title: The "Precession of the Equinoxes" is a real, very slow wobble of the… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The "Precession of the Equinoxes" is a real, very slow wobble of the Earth that takes about 26,000 years, so saying something happened "in the middle of" it one morning is Kipling's joke. Who acts: Precession, real slow wobble, something, saying. 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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 (Precession, real slow wobble, something, saying), 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:23 # text = The "Precession of the Equinoxes" is a real, very slow wobble of the Earth that takes about 26,000 years, so saying something happened "in the middle of" it one morning is Kipling's joke. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Precession precession PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Equinoxes equinox PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 wobble wobble NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 26,000 26,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 csubj _ _ 26 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ _ 27 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Precession of the Equinoxes | a real slow wobble | | | | of the Earth | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | present | a real slow wobble | | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **happen** | past | something | | | the middle of Precession | morning | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | | 5 | **is a** | present | saying | Kipling's joke | | | | | 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:23`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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:…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/22/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)