--- title: Kipling lists the Tribe's chiefs with grand, funny titles borrowed f… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Kipling lists the Tribe's chiefs with grand, funny titles borrowed from many lands, «Platoffs with their Platoons, and Dolmans with their Detachments», and says «Aren't those beautiful words, Best Beloved?» Who acts: Kipling, Dolmans. 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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 (Kipling, Dolmans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:21 # text = Kipling lists the Tribe's chiefs with grand, funny titles borrowed from many lands, «Platoffs with their Platoons, and Dolmans with their Detachments», and says «Aren't those beautiful words, Best Beloved?» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lists list VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 4 Tribe tribe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 titles title NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 borrowed borrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Platoffs platoff PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Platoons platoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Dolmans dolman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 Detachments detachment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 33 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 35 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 ccomp _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Best Best PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 Beloved Beloved PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ _ 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 42 » » 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 | **list** | present | Kipling | the Tribe's chiefs | | | | with grand funny titles | tree rules | | 2 | **borrow** | participle | | grand funny titles *not said here* | | many lands | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from land=Source | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | | that beautiful words | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **detach** *in a quote* | | Dolmans *= dolman* | | | | | | nom detachment «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:21`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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. 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