Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 13
The hunter sums it up: "The long and the little of it is that we don't match our backgrounds" ("the long and the little of it" = the whole truth in short).
Who acts: hunter, we · What happens: sum up, not be · To what, where: breakfast · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hunter, we), 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 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sums | nsubj |
| 3 | sums | sum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sums | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sums | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 long | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sums | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 little | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 little | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 match | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 match | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 match | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 match | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 match | advmod |
| 20 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 long | ccomp |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 backgrounds | nmod:poss |
| 22 | backgrounds | background | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 match | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 match | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 long | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 little | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 long | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 little | nmod |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 34 | = | = | SYM | _ | 37 truth | dep |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 truth | det |
| 36 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 truth | amod |
| 37 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 long | appos |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 short | case |
| 39 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 truth | amod |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 short | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sums | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sum up | present | the hunter | breakfast | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present · do-support | we | match property | 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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:13.
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): 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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