Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 124
I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, ‘Let us melt into the landscape--just us two by our lones.’
Who acts: I, Most Wise Baviaan, us · What happens: be, say, let, melt · To what, where: Most Wise Baviaan, most wise tones, us, landscape · 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, Most Wise Baviaan, us), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Baviaan | nsubj |
| 2 | AM | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Baviaan | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Baviaan | det |
| 4 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Baviaan | amod |
| 5 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Baviaan | amod |
| 6 | Baviaan | Baviaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Baviaan | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Baviaan | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tones | case |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 tones | amod |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tones | amod |
| 12 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 15 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Let | obj |
| 17 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Let | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 landscape | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 landscape | det |
| 20 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 melt | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 us | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 us | advmod |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 landscape | nmod |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 us | appos |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 lones | case |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lones | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lones | lone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 melt | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the Most Wise Baviaan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Most Wise Baviaan not said here | most wise tones | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | melt | infinitive | us not said here | the landscape us | by our lones | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into landscape=Product |
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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