Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 125
People have come--in a carriage--calling.
Who acts: People · What happens: come, call · To what, where: carriage · 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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 carriage | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 carriage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 carriage | det |
| 7 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 calling | punct |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 come | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | People | a carriage | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in carriage=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | People not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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