Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 11

At last they were so hungry that they ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits, the Leopard and the Ethiopian, and then they had the Big Tummy-ache, both together; and then they met Baviaan--the dog-headed, barking Baboon, who is Quite the Wisest Animal in All South Africa.

Who acts: Giraffe, Baboon · What happens: be, eat, have, meet, bark · To what, where: last, rats, Big Tummy ache, Baviaan, Baboon, Quite

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 (Giraffe, Baboon), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hungry	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 ate	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ate	nsubj
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	advcl
10	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ate	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beetles	cc
12	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rats	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rabbits	cc
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rabbits	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 rock	punct
16	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rats	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Leopard	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Leopard	det
19	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rats	appos
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Ethiopian	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Ethiopian	det
22	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Leopard	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 had	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ate	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ache	det
29	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ache	amod
30	Tummy	Tummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ache	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Tummy	punct
32	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 together	punct
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	35 together	nsubj
35	together	together	ADV	_	32 ache	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 met	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 met	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 met	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 met	nsubj
40	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	conj
41	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 met	obj
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 headed	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 headed	det
44	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 headed	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 dog	punct
46	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Baviaan	amod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 barking	punct
48	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 headed	advcl
49	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 barking	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Quite	punct
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 Quite	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 Quite	cop
53	Quite	Quite	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Baboon	appos
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Animal	det
55	Wisest	Wisest	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Animal	compound
56	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Quite	conj
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 Africa	case
58	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 Africa	det
59	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Africa	compound
60	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Animal	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Giraffe		last		hungry property	tree rules
2	eat	past	Giraffe	rats and beetles and rock rabbits				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient
3	have	past	Giraffe	the Big Tummy ache		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient
4	meet	past	Giraffe	Baviaan		then		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baviaan=Co-Agent
5	bark	gerund	Giraffe not said here	Baboon				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent baboon=Theme
6	is a	present	Baboon	Quite and the Wisest Animal in all South Africa				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.

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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