--- title: Real life: Kipling's own daughter Josephine, the first «Best Beloved… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: Kipling's own daughter Josephine, the first «Best Beloved» for whom he told these stories, died of an illness in 1899 when she was six, three years before the book came out; many readers hear his sadness in the closing poem. Who acts: Josephine, Real life, Kipling, book. 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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 (Josephine, Real life, Kipling, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:27 # text = Real life: Kipling's own daughter Josephine, the first «Best Beloved» for whom he told these stories, died of an illness in 1899 when she was six, three years before the book came out; many readers hear his sadness in the closing poem. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Josephine Josephine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 parataxis _ _ 14 Beloved beloved ADV GW Typo=Yes 13 advmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 20 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 23 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 1899 1899 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 29 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 advcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod:unmarked _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 out out ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 closing closing NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Josephine | this stories | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 2 | **die** | past | Real life Josephine Kipling's own daughter | | | | | of a illness; in 1899 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1899=Attribute | | 3 | **is a** | past | Kipling | six | | | year | | tree rules | | 4 | **come out** | past | the book | three years *not said here* | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient year=Result | | 5 | **hear** | present | many readers | book's sadness | | the closing poem | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sadness=Stimulus | 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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:27`. **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 ×1, 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. 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