--- title: Going home he pulled fruit down from trees, used a branch as a fly-w… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: Going home he pulled fruit down from trees, used a branch as a fly-whisk, and sang down his trunk "louder than several brass bands"; he picked up the melon rind he had dropped, "for he was a Tidy Pachyderm" (a thick-skinned animal). Who acts: 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 (Snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:13 # text = Going home he pulled fruit down from trees, used a branch as a fly-whisk, and sang down his trunk "louder than several brass bands"; he picked up the melon rind he had dropped, "for he was a Tidy Pachyderm" (a thick-skinned animal). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 080-justso-elephants-child-2.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 2 home home ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 down down PART RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 whisk whisk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 melon melon NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 rind rind NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 43 for for SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Tidy tidy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 Pachyderm pachyderm NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 advcl _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 52 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ _ 54 skinned skinned VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=55:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 55 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 appos _ _ 56 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | gerund | Snake *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | past | Snake | fruit | | trees | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **use** | past | Snake *not said here* | a branch | | | | as a fly whisk | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent branch=Duration as whisk=Attribute | | 4 | **sing down** *speech: express* | past | Snake *not said here* | Snake's trunk | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Beneficiary loud=Theme | | 5 | **pick up** | past | Snake | the melon rind | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Topic | | 6 | **drop** | past · perfect | Snake | the melon rind *not said here* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Snake | a Tidy Pachyderm | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **skinned** | participle | | | | | | | 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. 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