--- title: A famous joke mocking that rule, "This is the sort of English up wit… — Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that… · tree and pragmatics description: A famous joke mocking that rule, "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put", is often credited to Winston Churchill, but nobody has proved he said it. Who acts: famous joke, This, English, nobody. 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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 (famous joke, This, English, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:13 # text = A famous joke mocking that rule, "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put", is often credited to Winston Churchill, but nobody has proved he said it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 mocking mock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obl _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 credited credit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Winston Winston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 Churchill Churchill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 33 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 proved prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mock** | gerund | a famous joke *not said here* | that rule | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the sort | | | | of English | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **put up** *in a quote* | future | English | | | | | with the sort | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **credit** | present · passive | | a famous joke | Winston | | | often *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to winston=Recipient | | 5 | **prove** | present · perfect | nobody | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | English | joke | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:13`. **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. **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: [Prepositions and conjunctions: little…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/12/) - next →: [Prepositions and conjunctions: little…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/)