Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 21
And the Ethiopian said, ‘That is all very fine, but I wish to know whither the aboriginal Fauna has migrated.’
Who acts: Ethiopian, That, I, aboriginal Fauna · What happens: say, be, wish, know, migrate · 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, That, I, aboriginal Fauna), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ethiopian | det |
| 3 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fine | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 fine | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 fine | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | cop |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 fine | nsubj |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 fine | advmod |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 wish | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wish | xcomp |
| 18 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 migrated | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fauna | det |
| 20 | aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Fauna | amod |
| 21 | Fauna | Fauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 migrated | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 migrated | aux |
| 23 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 know | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Ethiopian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | That | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | migrate | present · perfect | the aboriginal Fauna | whither 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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