Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 101

‘Well, make up your mind,’ said the Ethiopian, ‘because I’d hate to go hunting without you, but I must if you insist on looking like a sun-flower against a tarred fence.’

Who acts: Ethiopian, I, you, your · What happens: make up, say, have, go, hunt, insist · To what, where: mind, hate · 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 (Ethiopian, I, you, your), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 make	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 make	compound:prt
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mind	nmod:poss
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Ethiopian	det
12	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ’d	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 ’d	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 ’d	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ’d	nsubj
17	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	hate	hate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ’d	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hate	acl
21	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 go	xcomp
22	without	without	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hunting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 must	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 must	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 must	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ’d	advcl
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 insist	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 insist	nsubj
30	insist	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 must	advcl
31	on	on	SCONJ	_	32 looking	mark
32	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 insist	advcl
33	like	like	ADP	_	37 flower	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 flower	det
35	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flower	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 sun	punct
37	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looking	obl
38	against	against	ADP	_	41 fence	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fence	det
40	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 fence	amod
41	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looking	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	infinitive		your mind		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past	the Ethiopian			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	I	hate		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hate=Patient
4	go	to-infinitive	I not said here	hate not said here		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hunt	gerund	I not said here		without you	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	insist speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	look	gerund	you not said here		like a sun flower; against a tarred fence	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent against fence=Theme
8	tar	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
9	mind		your			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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