Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 16
The forest is "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows"; Kipling says "Say that quickly aloud".
Who acts: Kipling · What happens: speckle, sprottl, spottl, dot, splash, slash · To what, where: forest, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kipling), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 forest | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speckled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speckled | aux:pass |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speckled | punct |
| 5 | speckled | speckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sprottled | cc |
| 7 | sprottled | sprottl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 speckled | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spottled | cc |
| 9 | spottled | spottl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 speckled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dotted | punct |
| 11 | dotted | dot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 speckled | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 splashed | cc |
| 13 | splashed | splash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dotted | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slashed | cc |
| 15 | slashed | slash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 speckled | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hatched | cc |
| 17 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 slashed | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cross-hatched | cc |
| 19 | cross-hatched | cross-hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hatched | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 shadows | case |
| 21 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cross-hatched | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speckled | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 says | punct |
| 24 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 says | nsubj |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speckled | parataxis |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Say | punct |
| 27 | Say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 says | ccomp |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Say | obj |
| 29 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 27 Say | advmod |
| 30 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 27 Say | advmod |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Say | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speckled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speckle in a quote | present · passive | the forest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sprottl in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | spottl in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | dot in a quote | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | splash in a quote | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | slash in a quote | participle | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | hatch in a quote | participle | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | cross-hatch in a quote | participle | with shadows | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | present | Kipling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | that | aloud, quickly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=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, 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:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
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