Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 22

Then said Baviaan, ‘The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change; and my advice to you, Ethiopian, is to change as soon as you can.’

Who acts: Baviaan, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna, advice · What happens: say, join, be · To what, where: aboriginal Flora, high time · 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, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna, 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	_	10 joined	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 joined	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fauna	det
7	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Fauna	amod
8	Fauna	Fauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 joined	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 joined	aux
10	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Flora	det
12	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Flora	amod
13	Flora	Flora	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 joined	obj
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 time	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 time	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	cop
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 joined	obl:unmarked
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 change	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 change	det
21	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 time	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 change	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 change	cc
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 advice	nmod:poss
25	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 change	nsubj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 advice	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Ethiopian	punct
29	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 advice	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 advice	punct
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 change	cop
32	to	to	PART	_	33 change	mark
33	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 soon	advmod
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 change	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 can	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 can	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 soon	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 change	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Baviaan		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	join	present · perfect	the aboriginal Fauna	the aboriginal Flora			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flora=Patient
3	is a	past	Fauna	high time		for a change	tree rules
4	is	present	my advice to you			change, 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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