Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 3

The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were ‘sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over; but the Leopard, he was the ‘sclusivest sandiest-yellowish-brownest of them all--a greyish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast, and he matched the ‘sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair.

Who acts: Giraffe, Zebra, Leopard · What happens: live, be, shape, match · To what, where: sclusivest, yellowish brownish colour

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 (Giraffe, Zebra, Leopard), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giraffe	det
2	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lived	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Zebra	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Zebra	det
5	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Giraffe	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Eland	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Eland	det
8	Eland	Eland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Giraffe	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Koodoo	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Koodoo	det
11	Koodoo	Koodoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Eland	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Hartebeest	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hartebeest	det
14	Hartebeest	Hartebeest	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Eland	conj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lived	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 brownish	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brownish	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brownish	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brownish	cop
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 brownish	punct
22	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	27 brownish	advmod
23	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brownish	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 sandy	punct
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brownish	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 yellow	punct
27	brownish	brownish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lived	conj
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 over	advmod
29	over	over	ADV	_	27 brownish	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 matched	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 matched	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Leopard	det
33	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 matched	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sclusivest	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sclusivest	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sclusivest	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sclusivest	det
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 sclusivest	punct
39	sclusivest	sclusivest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Leopard	appos
40	sandiest	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 sclusivest	nmod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 sandiest	punct
42	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 brownest	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 brownest	punct
44	brownest	brown	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 sandiest	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 brownest	obl
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 them	nmod:unmarked
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 kind	punct
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 kind	det
50	greyish	greyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 yellowish	amod
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 greyish	punct
52	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 kind	amod
53	catty	catty	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 shaped	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 catty	punct
55	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 kind	amod
56	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Leopard	appos
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 beast	case
58	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 kind	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 matched	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 matched	cc
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 matched	nsubj
62	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lived	conj
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 colour	det
64	‘	'	PUNCT	_	71 colour	punct
65	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	66 yellowish	advmod
66	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 colour	amod
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 yellowish	punct
68	greyish	greyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 brownish	amod
69	-	-	PUNCT	_	68 greyish	punct
70	brownish	brownish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 colour	amod
71	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 matched	obj
72	of	of	ADP	_	75 Veldt	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 Veldt	det
74	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 Veldt	amod
75	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 colour	nmod
76	to	to	ADP	_	78 hair	case
77	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	78 hair	nummod
78	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 matched	obl
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Giraffe			brownish, over, sclusively property	tree rules
3	is a	past	Zebra	the sclusivest		sandiest nmod	tree rules
4	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	match	past	the Leopard	the yellowish brownish colour of the High Veldt		to one hair	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent colour=Patient to hair=Co-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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