Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 4
Parts of this story use old words and ideas about people that are racist and wrong; we leave those out and read the animal story, which is about camouflage, matching where you live.
Who acts: Parts, people, we, animal story, you · What happens: use, be, leave out, read, live · To what, where: old words, those, animal story
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 (Parts, people, we, animal story), 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 | Parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Parts | nmod |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ideas | cc |
| 9 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 words | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 words | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 racist | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 racist | cop |
| 14 | racist | racist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wrong | cc |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 racist | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | parataxis |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 leave | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 read | cc |
| 23 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 leave | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 25 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 story | compound |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 read | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 camouflage | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 camouflage | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 camouflage | cop |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 camouflage | case |
| 31 | camouflage | camouflage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 story | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 matching | punct |
| 33 | matching | matching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 camouflage | conj |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 live | advmod |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 live | nsubj |
| 36 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 matching | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Parts of this story | old words and ideas | about people | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | people | racist property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | leave out | present | we | those | out property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 5 | read | present | we not said here | the animal story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the animal story | about camouflage and matching | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.
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, 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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