--- title: "In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant ... had no trunk", only… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: "In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant ... had no trunk", only "a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot" that he could wriggle but not pick things up with. Who acts: Child. 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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 (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:5 # text = "In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant ... had no trunk", only "a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot" that he could wriggle but not pick things up with. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 2 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 6 Far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Off off ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 ... ... PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 blackish blackish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 bulgy bulgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 wriggle wriggle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | no trunk | | the High | time | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | | 2 | **wriggle** | could | Child | a blackish bulgy nose | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **pick up** | infinitive | Child *not said here* | things | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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. 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