Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 104
‘I’ll make ‘em with the tips of my fingers,’ said the Ethiopian.
Who acts: I, Ethiopian · What happens: make, em, say · 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 (I, Ethiopian), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 em | punct |
| 6 | em | em | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tips | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tips | det |
| 9 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 em | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fingers | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tips | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Ethiopian | det |
| 17 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | em | infinitive | I not said here | with the tips of my fingers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Ethiopian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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