Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 6
He called it "O you person without any form" (without a shape you can see) and sat on its head till morning; the hunter did the same with something that kicked "like Giraffe".
Who acts: Zebra, you · What happens: call, person, see, sit, kick · To what, where: hunting, head · 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 (Zebra, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 person | punct |
| 5 | O | O | INTJ | _ | 7 person | discourse |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 person | nsubj |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 person | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 shape | punct |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 shape | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shape | det |
| 15 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 25 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 morning | case |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 same | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hunter | det |
| 29 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 same | aux |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 same | det |
| 32 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sat | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 something | case |
| 34 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 same | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 kicked | nsubj |
| 36 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 something | acl:relcl |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Giraffe | punct |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 Giraffe | case |
| 39 | Giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 kicked | obl |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Giraffe | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Zebra | hunting | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | person in a quote | you | without any form | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | can | you | without a shape | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | Zebra not said here | hunting's head | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | |||
| 5 | kick | past | like Giraffe | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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:6.
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. 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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