Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 8

The Leopard "matched the 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair", and would "surprise them out of their jumpsome lives".

Who acts: Leopard · What happens: match, surprise · To what, where: yellowish brownish colour, Giraffe, jumpsome lives

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 (Leopard), 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 Leopard	det
2	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 matched	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 matched	punct
4	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colour	det
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 colour	punct
7	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	8 yellowish	advmod
8	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colour	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 yellowish	punct
10	greyish	greyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brownish	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 greyish	punct
12	brownish	brownish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colour	amod
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matched	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Veldt	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Veldt	det
16	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Veldt	amod
17	Veldt	veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 colour	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 hair	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hair	nummod
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matched	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 matched	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 surprise	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 surprise	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 surprise	aux
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 surprise	punct
26	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 matched	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 surprise	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	32 lives	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 out	fixed
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lives	nmod:poss
31	jumpsome	jumpsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lives	amod
32	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 surprise	obl
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 surprise	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 matched	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match in a quote	past	the Leopard	the yellowish brownish colour of the High Veldt				to one hair	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent colour=Patient to hair=Co-Patient
2	surprise in a quote	would	the Leopard not said here	Giraffe		Giraffe's jumpsome lives			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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:8.

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, R6-punct-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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