--- title: He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate" ("inord… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate" ("inordinate" = far too much). Who acts: Kangaroo, pride. 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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 (Kangaroo, pride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:6 # text = He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate" ("inordinate" = far too much). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.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 ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 inordinate inordinate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 inordinate inordinate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 = = SYM SYM _ 22 punct _ _ 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | past | Kangaroo | | | | | grey *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Kangaroo | | | | | woolly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | Kangaroo's pride | | | | | inordinate *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Kangaroo's pride *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | | Kangaroo's pride *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pride** | | Kangaroo | | | | | | nom pride «feeling 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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