--- title: That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen mel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Elephant’s Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/) / 17 # Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 17 That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye. **Who acts:** Child · **What happens:** leave, precede, accord, take, say · **To what, where:** Precession, hundred pounds, dear families · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:6:17 # text = That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 10 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Equinoxes Equinox PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Precession Precession PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 preceded precede VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 20 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 case _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 precedent precedent NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nmod _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 satiable satiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Elephant Elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’s 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 47 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 52 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 54 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 61 nummod _ _ 61 melons melon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 62 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 64 greeny greeny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 crackly crackly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 68 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 71 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 conj _ _ 72 to to ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 73 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 76 det:predet _ _ 74 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 76 nmod:poss _ _ 75 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 76 amod _ _ 76 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 71 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 77 , , PUNCT , _ 79 punct _ _ 78 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 79 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 Goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 80 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **precede** | past · perfect · passive | | the Precession | | | morning | accord precedent this | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 3 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | past | satiable Elephant's Child | hundred pounds of bananas | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | satiable Elephant's Child *not said here* | | Elephant's dear families and Goodbye | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient | 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. **Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/18/) - ↑ back to [The Elephant’s Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/)