Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 35
‘I remember them perfectly on the High Veldt, especially their marrow-bones.
Who acts: I · What happens: remember · To what, where: Eland, High Veldt
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | obj |
| 5 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 3 remember | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Veldt | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Veldt | det |
| 8 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Veldt | amod |
| 9 | Veldt | Veldt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bones | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 15 bones | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bones | nmod:poss |
| 13 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bones | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 marrow | punct |
| 15 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Veldt | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | I | Eland | the High Veldt and Eland's marrow bones | perfectly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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