Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 16
(That meant just the same thing, but the Ethiopian always used long words.
Who acts: That, Ethiopian · What happens: mean, use · To what, where: same thing, long words
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 (That, Ethiopian), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 thing | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 used | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ethiopian | det |
| 11 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 used | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 used | advmod |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 meant | conj |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 used | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | That | the same thing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | past | the Ethiopian | long words | always property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
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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