Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 9
The Leopard says, "if you were on the High Veldt I could see you ten miles off", and the Zebra answers, "but this isn't the High Veldt.
Who acts: Leopard, you, Zebra, this · What happens: say, be, see, answer, not be · To what, where: High Veldt, you · 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, you, Zebra, this), 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 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 Veldt | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Veldt | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Veldt | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Veldt | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Veldt | det |
| 11 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Veldt | amod |
| 12 | Veldt | veldt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 see | advcl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 off | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 answers | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 answers | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 answers | det |
| 24 | Zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 answers | nsubj |
| 25 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 answers | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 answers | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 Veldt | cc |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 Veldt | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Veldt | cop |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 Veldt | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Veldt | det |
| 33 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Veldt | amod |
| 34 | Veldt | veldt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 answers | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Leopard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | the High Veldt | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | could | the Leopard = leopard | you | off property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | present | Zebra | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | this | the High Veldt | 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:9.
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, 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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