--- title: He walks home happy, using his trunk for everything and even picking… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: He walks home happy, using his trunk for everything and even picking up the melon rind he dropped, but at home he spanks his whole family back, until they all rush off to the Crocodile to get trunks of their own, and after that nobody spanks anybody. Who acts: Snake, flies, nobody. 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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, flies, nobody), 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:3 # text = He walks home happy, using his trunk for everything and even picking up the melon rind he dropped, but at home he spanks his whole family back, until they all rush off to the Crocodile to get trunks of their own, and after that nobody spanks anybody. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 home home ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 melon melon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 rind rind NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 spanks spank VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 advmod _ _ 34 rush rush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Crocodile crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:acl 41 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 nmod _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 after after SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 det _ _ 49 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 50 nsubj _ _ 50 spanks spank VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 51 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 50 obj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | Snake | | | | | happy, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **use** | gerund | Snake *not said here* | Snake's trunk | | | | for everything | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme for everything=Eventuality | | 3 | **pick up** | gerund | Snake *not said here* | the melon rind | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Topic | | 4 | **drop** | past | Snake | the melon rind *not said here* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme | | 5 | **spank** | present | Snake | Snake's whole family | | home | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent family=Patient at home=Location | | 6 | **rush off** | present | flies *= fly* | | | | | to the Crocodile *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to crocodile=Result | | 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | flies *= fly* *not said here* | trunks of flies's own | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trunk=Stimulus | | 8 | **spank** | present | nobody | anybody | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient | 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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