Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 2

‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ‘sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass.

Who acts: Leopard, Bush Veldt · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: Member Low Veldt, sand

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, Bush Veldt), 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	_	8 Veldt	punct
2	Member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Veldt	compound
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Veldt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Veldt	cop
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 Veldt	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Veldt	det
7	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Veldt	amod
8	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sand	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 sand	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Veldt	det
12	Bush	Bush	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Veldt	compound
13	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sand	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Veldt	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 Veldt	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Veldt	det
17	Sour	Sour	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Veldt	compound
18	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Veldt	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Veldt	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 Veldt	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Veldt	det
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 bare	punct
23	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	24 bare	advmod
24	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Veldt	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bare	punct
26	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Veldt	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hot	punct
28	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Veldt	amod
29	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Veldt	amod
30	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Veldt	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 was	advmod
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sand	cop
35	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Veldt	appos
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rock	cc
37	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 coloured	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 sandy	punct
39	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rock	amod
40	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sand	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 tufts	cc
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 tufts	punct
43	sclusively	sclusively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 tufts	amod
44	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 rock	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 grass	case
46	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 yellowish	amod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 sandy	punct
48	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 grass	amod
49	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tufts	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Veldt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	Leopard	the Member Low Veldt					tree rules
2	is a	past	the Bush Veldt or the Sour Veldt but the hot shiny High Veldt	sand and coloured rock and sclusively tufts of yellowish grass					tree rules

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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