Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 17
The hunter "put his five fingers close together" and pressed them all over the Leopard, and "wherever the five fingers touched they left five little black marks, all close together".
Who acts: hunter, five fingers, Leopard · What happens: put, press, touch, leave · To what, where: five fingers, fingers, five little black marks
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, five fingers, 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 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 fingers | nummod |
| 7 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 together | advmod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pressed | cc |
| 12 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pressed | obj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 Leopard | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 Leopard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Leopard | det |
| 17 | Leopard | leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pressed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 touched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 touched | cc |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 touched | punct |
| 21 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 touched | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fingers | det |
| 23 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 fingers | nummod |
| 24 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 touched | nsubj |
| 25 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pressed | conj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 28 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 marks | nummod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 marks | amod |
| 30 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 marks | amod |
| 31 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 left | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 close | advmod |
| 34 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 put | parataxis |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 close | advmod |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 close | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | past | the hunter | hunter's five fingers | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal | |||
| 2 | press | past | the hunter not said here | fingers = finger | over the Leopard | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | touch in a quote | past | the five fingers | wherever property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | past | Leopard | five little black marks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=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:17.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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