Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 0

The Leopard and the hunter wait for dark, and each grabs something he can smell and feel but not see; they sit on their catches all night, and in the morning they find a Giraffe now covered in blotches and a Zebra now covered in stripes.

Who acts: each, he, Leopard · What happens: wait, grab, smell, feel, not see, sit · To what, where: something, catches, Giraffe, Zebra

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?)» 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 (each, he, 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wait	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunter	det
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Leopard	conj
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Leopard	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dark	case
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wait	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grabs	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grabs	cc
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 grabs	nsubj
12	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	conj
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 grabs	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 smell	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 smell	aux
16	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 something	acl:relcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feel	cc
18	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 smell	conj
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 smell	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sit	nsubj
24	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 catches	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 catches	nmod:poss
27	catches	catch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sit	obl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sit	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 find	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 find	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 morning	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 morning	det
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 find	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
36	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sit	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 Giraffe	det
38	Giraffe	giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 find	obj
39	now	now	ADV	_	40 covered	advmod
40	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 Giraffe	acl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 blotches	case
42	blotches	blotch	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 covered	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Zebra	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 Zebra	det
45	Zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Giraffe	conj
46	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 covered	advmod
47	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 Zebra	acl
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 stripes	case
49	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 covered	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive					for dark	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	present	each	something				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	smell	can	he					vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
4	feel	infinitive	he not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	not see	infinitive	he not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	sit	present	Leopard		Leopard's catches	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on catch=Location
7	find	present	Leopard	a Giraffe and a Zebra		morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Topic
8	cover	participle		a Giraffe and a Zebra not said here		now	in blotches	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in blotch=Theme
9	cover	participle		a Zebra not said here		now	in stripes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stripe=Theme

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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:0.

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, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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