Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 6
Kipling keeps saying "'sclusively", his baby-talk for "exclusively", which here means "only, completely".
Who acts: Kipling, baby talk · What happens: keep, say, mean, talk · 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, baby talk), 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 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sclusively | punct |
| 6 | sclusively | sclusively | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 saying | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sclusively | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talk | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 talk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talk | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 baby | punct |
| 12 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sclusively | appos |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 exclusively | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclusively | punct |
| 15 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 12 talk | nmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclusively | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 means | advmod |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 talk | advcl:relcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 completely | punct |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 completely | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 completely | punct |
| 24 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 20 means | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 completely | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Kipling | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Kipling not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sclusively=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Kipling's baby talk | here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | talk | Kipling | nom talk «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:6.
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 ×1, 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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