Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 1
IN the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt.
Who acts: everybody, Best Beloved · What happens: start, live, call · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, Best Beloved), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Beloved | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 started | advmod |
| 5 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 days | acl:relcl |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 started | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 9 | Best | Good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Beloved | flat |
| 10 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beloved | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Leopard | det |
| 13 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 place | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Veldt | det |
| 20 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Veldt | amod |
| 21 | Veldt | Veldt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | everybody | fair property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Best Beloved | a place | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a place not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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