--- title: The Snake "knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch" (a sailor's knot… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The Snake "knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch" (a sailor's knot) round his hind legs, calling the Crocodile a "self-propelling man-of-war with the armour-plated upper deck" (a warship with armour on top), "That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk." 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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, Crocodile, That, Python Rock Snakes), 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:8 # text = The Snake "knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch" (a sailor's knot) round his hind legs, calling the Crocodile a "self-propelling man-of-war with the armour-plated upper deck" (a warship with armour on top), "That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk." # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 knotted knot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 clove clove NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 hitch hitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 knot knot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 round round ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Crocodile crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 propelling propel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 40 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 plated plate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 43 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 warship warship NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 53 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 59 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 56 That that PRON DT PronType=Dem 59 nsubj _ _ 57 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 cop _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 60 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 69 det _ _ 61 Bi bi ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 62 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 63 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=61:punct 63 Coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 64 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 63 punct _ _ 65 Python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 66 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 65 punct _ _ 67 Rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 68 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 67 punct _ _ 69 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 71 nsubj _ _ 70 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 71 advmod _ _ 71 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=59:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 72 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 73 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knot** *in a quote* | past | the Snake | Snake | | a double clove hitch | | round Snake's hind legs | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Crocodile | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **propel** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **plate** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | all Python Rock Snakes | the way *not said here* | | | | always *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent way=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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:…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/7/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)