Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 7
The Giraffe, the Zebra, the Eland, the Koodoo (kudu) and the Hartebeest lived there and were all "sandy-yellow-brownish all over"; eland, kudu and hartebeest are real African antelopes.
Who acts: Giraffe, eland · What happens: live, be · To what, where: real African antelopes
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 (Giraffe, eland), 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 Giraffe | det |
| 2 | Giraffe | giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Zebra | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Zebra | det |
| 5 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Giraffe | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Eland | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Eland | det |
| 8 | Eland | Eland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Giraffe | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Koodoo | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Koodoo | det |
| 11 | Koodoo | koodoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Eland | appos |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 kudu | punct |
| 13 | kudu | kudu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Koodoo | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 kudu | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Hartebeest | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hartebeest | det |
| 17 | Hartebeest | hartebeest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Koodoo | conj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lived | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 brownish | cc |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brownish | cop |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 brownish | advmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 brownish | punct |
| 24 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 yellow | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 sandy | punct |
| 26 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brownish | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 yellow | punct |
| 28 | brownish | brownish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lived | conj |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 over | advmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADV | _ | 28 brownish | advmod |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 brownish | punct |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 eland | punct |
| 33 | eland | eland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 antelopes | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kudu | punct |
| 35 | kudu | kudu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eland | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hartebeest | cc |
| 37 | hartebeest | hartebeest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kudu | conj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 antelopes | cop |
| 39 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 antelopes | amod |
| 40 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 antelopes | amod |
| 41 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lived | parataxis |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland not said here | all, brownish, over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | eland and kudu and hartebeest | real African antelopes | tree rules |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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