Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 15

Said the Ethiopian to Baviaan, ‘Can you tell me the present habitat of the aboriginal Fauna?’

Who acts: Ethiopian, you · What happens: say, tell · To what, where: Baviaan, present habitat, me · 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 (Ethiopian, you), 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	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ethiopian	det
3	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Baviaan	case
5	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 habitat	det
13	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 habitat	amod
14	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Fauna	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fauna	det
17	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Fauna	amod
18	Fauna	fauna	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 habitat	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Ethiopian		Baviaan				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to baviaan=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	can	you	the present habitat of the aboriginal Fauna	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient habitat=Topic

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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