--- title: Their names are What and Where and When / And How and Why and Who";… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: Their names are What and Where and When / And How and Why and Who"; a small girl keeps "One million Hows, two million Wheres, / And seven million Whys!" The poet lets his six "rest from nine till five, / For I am busy then, / As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, / For they are hungry men." 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The poet lets his six "rest from nine till five, / For I am busy then, / As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, / For they are hungry men." **Who acts:** names, small girl, poet, I, breakfast, bubbles · **What happens:** be, keep, let, name · **To what, where:** million Hows, six rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, small girl, poet, I), 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:19 # text = Their names are What and Where and When / And How and Why and Who"; a small girl keeps "One million Hows, two million Wheres, / And seven million Whys!" The poet lets his six "rest from nine till five, / For I am busy then, / As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, / For they are hungry men." # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 8 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 conj _ _ 9 / / PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 11 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 13 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 15 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 conj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 Hows how NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 compound _ _ 28 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 Wheres where NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 / / PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 And and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 compound _ _ 34 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 Whys why NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 38 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 42 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nmod _ _ 47 till till ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nmod _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 / / PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 For for SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 52 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 54 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 parataxis _ _ 55 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 58 advmod _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 / / SYM , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 As as ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 59 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 58 fixed _ _ 60 as as ADP IN _ 58 fixed _ _ 61 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod _ _ 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 66 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 67 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 68 / / PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 69 For for ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 70 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 73 nsubj _ _ 71 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 73 cop _ _ 72 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 73 amod _ _ 73 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 appos _ _ 74 . . PUNCT . _ 73 punct _ _ 75 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 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 | bubbles's names | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | a small girl | million Hows and million Wheres and million Whys | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent how=Theme | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | present | the poet | poet's six rest from nine till five | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | breakfast | | | | | for hungry men | tree rules | | 6 | **name** | | bubbles *= bubble* | | | | | | nom name «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:19`. **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): R1-cc-next ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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:…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/18/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)