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title: The story ends with a song: Kipling has never sailed the Amazon or s… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: The story ends with a song: Kipling has never sailed the Amazon or seen a jaguar or an armadillo, but he would love to «roll down to Rio» one day before he is old, on one of the big steamers that sail «weekly from Southampton» (an English port). Who acts: story, Kipling, Jaguar, big steamers. A sent
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 11

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The story ends with a song: Kipling has never sailed the Amazon or seen a jaguar or an armadillo, but he would love to «roll down to Rio» one day before he is old, on one of the big steamers that sail «weekly from Southampton» (an English port).

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**Who acts:** story, Kipling, Jaguar, big steamers · **What happens:** end, not sail, see, love, roll down, be · **To what, where:** Amazon, jaguar, Rio, Southampton

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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 (story, Kipling, Jaguar, big steamers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:11
# text = The story ends with a song: Kipling has never sailed the Amazon or seen a jaguar or an armadillo, but he would love to «roll down to Rio» one day before he is old, on one of the big steamers that sail «weekly from Southampton» (an English port).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl:unmarked
35	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	steamers	steamer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	sail	sail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
49	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Southampton	Southampton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
53	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	56	punct	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:appos
57	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	56	punct	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | with a song | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with song=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **not** **sail** | present · perfect | Kipling | the Amazon |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amazon=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | participle | Kipling *not said here* | a jaguar or a armadillo |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jaguar=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** | would | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **roll down** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jaguar *not said here* |  |  | Rio | day | on one of the big steamers; down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to rio=Source on one=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is** | present | Jaguar |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **sail** | present | the big steamers |  |  | Southampton |  | weekly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from southampton=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, 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/).

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