Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 12

Said Leopard to Baviaan (and it was a very hot day), ‘Where has all the game gone?’

Who acts: Leopard, ache · What happens: say, be, go · To what, where: Baviaan, hot day · 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 (Leopard, ache), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	parataxis
2	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Baviaan	case
4	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Said	obl
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 day	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 day	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 hot	advmod
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Baviaan	appos
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
16	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 has	advmod
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 game	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 game	det
20	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Leopard		Baviaan	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baviaan=Recipient
2	is a	past	ache	a hot day		tree rules
3	go	present · perfect				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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