Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 37
‘Umm, said the Ethiopian, looking into the speckly-spickly shadows of the aboriginal Flora-forest.
Who acts: Ethiopian · What happens: say, look, shadow · To what, where: aboriginal Flora forest · 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), 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 | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | Umm | umm | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Umm | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ethiopian | det |
| 6 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 shadows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shadows | det |
| 11 | speckly | speckly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spickly | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 speckly | punct |
| 13 | spickly | spickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shadows | amod |
| 14 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looking | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 17 | aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 forest | amod |
| 18 | Flora | Flora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 forest | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Flora | punct |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shadows | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the Ethiopian not said here | into the spickly shadows of the aboriginal Flora forest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into shadow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shadow | the aboriginal Flora forest | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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