Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 15
The Leopard thought Baviaan meant places: "I went into other spots as fast as I could ... and a lot of good it has done me", but the hunter explains, "He meant spots on your skin."
Who acts: Leopard, Baviaan, lot, hunter · What happens: think, mean, go, do, explain · To what, where: places, other spots, lot, spots, skin · 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 (Leopard, Baviaan, lot, hunter), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Baviaan | Baviaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 meant | nsubj |
| 5 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meant | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 spots | case |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spots | amod |
| 13 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 went | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 19 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 22 lot | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 done | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lot | det |
| 22 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 done | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 good | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lot | nmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 done | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 done | aux |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 went | conj |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 done | obj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 explains | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 explains | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hunter | det |
| 33 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 explains | nsubj |
| 34 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 explains | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 explains | punct |
| 37 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 meant | nsubj |
| 38 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 explains | ccomp |
| 39 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 meant | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 skin | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 skin | nmod:poss |
| 42 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spots | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 meant | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Leopard | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | Baviaan | places | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | the Leopard = leopard | other spots | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · perfect | lot | a lot of good | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | present | the hunter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | mean in a quote | past | hunter | spots | your skin | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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