--- title: When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more"; hitting people… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more"; hitting people is wrong, and the story's ending is happiest when nobody does it. Who acts: bubbles, nobody, hitting, ending. 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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 (bubbles, nobody, hitting, ending), 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:17 # text = When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more"; hitting people is wrong, and the story's ending is happiest when nobody does it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ _ 6 spanked spank VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 any any ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Ind 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 happiest happy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 conj _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 25 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 26 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | past | bubbles *= bubble* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spank** | past | nobody | anybody | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hit** *in a quote* | gerund | | people | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Co-Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | hitting | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the story's ending | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | nobody | ending | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **end** *in a quote* | | the story | | | | | | nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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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