Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 105

‘There’s plenty of black left on my skin still.

What happens: leave · To what, where: plenty, skin

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: 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	_	3 ’s	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	expl
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 black	case
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plenty	nmod
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 plenty	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 skin	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 skin	nmod:poss
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
11	still	still	ADV	_	7 left	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		plenty of black not said here		my skin	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on skin=Location

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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