Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 20

Then said Baviaan, ‘The game has gone into other spots; and my advice to you, Leopard, is to go into other spots as soon as you can.’

Who acts: Baviaan, game, advice · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: other spots · 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 (Baviaan, game, advice), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 spots	case
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spots	amod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 advice	nmod:poss
16	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	nsubj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 advice	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Leopard	punct
20	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 advice	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 advice	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 go	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 spots	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spots	amod
27	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	obl
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 soon	advmod
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 go	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 can	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 can	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 soon	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Baviaan		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · perfect	the game	other spots			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spot=Initial_Location
3	is	present	my advice to you	other spots		go, soon property	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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