Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 15

Baviaan's riddles: "The game has gone into other spots; and my advice to you, Leopard, is to go into other spots", and "The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change" ("game" = wild animals hunted for food).

Who acts: game, advice, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna, Baviaan · What happens: go, be, join, hunt, riddle · To what, where: other spots, aboriginal Flora, high time, wild animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest)» 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 (game, advice, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 riddles	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Baviaan	case
3	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 riddles	appos
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 spots	case
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spots	amod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 advice	nmod:poss
16	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	nsubj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 advice	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Leopard	punct
20	Leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 advice	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 advice	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 go	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 riddles	parataxis
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 spots	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spots	amod
27	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 spots	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 joined	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 joined	cc
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 joined	punct
32	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Fauna	det
33	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Fauna	amod
34	Fauna	fauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 joined	nsubj
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 joined	aux
36	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 spots	acl:relcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Flora	det
38	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Flora	amod
39	Flora	Flora	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 joined	obj
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	44 time	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 time	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 time	cop
43	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 time	amod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	advcl
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 change	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 change	det
47	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 time	nmod
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 game	punct
49	(	(	PUNCT	_	51 game	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 game	punct
51	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 change	appos
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 game	punct
53	=	=	SYM	_	55 animals	punct
54	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 animals	amod
55	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 change	nmod
56	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 animals	acl
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 food	case
58	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 hunted	obl
59	)	)	PUNCT	_	55 animals	punct
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 riddles	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · perfect	the game		other spots		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spot=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	present	my advice to you and Leopard		other spots	go property	tree rules
3	join in a quote	present · perfect	the aboriginal Fauna	the aboriginal Flora			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flora=Patient
4	is a in a quote	past	Fauna	high time		for a change wild animals	tree rules
5	hunt	participle		wild animals not said here		for food	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme
6	riddle		Baviaan				nom riddle «communication intransitive»: 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, 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:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:15.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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