--- title: On the way he also went out of his way to spank a Hippopotamus who w… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: On the way he also went out of his way to spank a Hippopotamus who was no relation of his, to make sure the Snake had told the truth about his new trunk. Who acts: Snake, Hippopotamus. 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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, Hippopotamus), 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:14 # text = On the way he also went out of his way to spank a Hippopotamus who was no relation of his, to make sure the Snake had told the truth about his new trunk. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 spank spank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Hippopotamus hippopotamus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 relation relation NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 24 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | Snake | Snake's way | | the way | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spank** | to-infinitive | Snake *not said here* | a Hippopotamus | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | a Hippopotamus | Snake's relation | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Snake *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Snake | the truth | | | | about Snake's new trunk | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about trunk=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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