Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 4

This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of them; for he would lie down by a ‘sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives.

Who acts: This, Zebra, Giraffe · What happens: be, lie down, come, surprise · To what, where: Giraffe, jumpsome lives

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 (This, Zebra, Giraffe), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Giraffe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giraffe	det
7	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bad	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Zebra	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Zebra	det
10	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Giraffe	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rest	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Giraffe	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rest	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lie	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 lie	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lie	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lie	aux
20	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bad	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 lie	compound:prt
22	by	by	ADP	_	31 stone	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 stone	det
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 stone	punct
25	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	26 yellowish	advmod
26	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stone	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 yellowish	punct
28	greyish	greyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 brownish	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 greyish	punct
30	brownish	brownish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stone	amod
31	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lie	obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 clump	cc
33	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stone	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 grass	case
35	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clump	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 came	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 came	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	60 came	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Giraffe	det
40	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 came	nsubj
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 Zebra	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Zebra	det
43	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Giraffe	conj
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 Eland	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Eland	det
46	Eland	Eland	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Giraffe	conj
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 Koodoo	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Koodoo	det
49	Koodoo	Koodoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Giraffe	conj
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 Buck	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Buck	det
52	Bush	Bush	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Buck	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 Bush	punct
54	Buck	Buck	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Giraffe	conj
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 Buck	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Buck	det
57	Bonte	Bonte	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Buck	compound
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 Bonte	punct
59	Buck	Buck	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Buck	conj
60	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	parataxis
61	by	by	SCONJ	_	64 surprise	mark
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 surprise	nsubj
63	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 surprise	aux
64	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 came	advcl
65	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 surprise	obj
66	out	out	ADP	_	70 lives	case
67	of	of	ADP	_	70 lives	case
68	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 lives	nmod:poss
69	jumpsome	jumpsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 lives	amod
70	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 surprise	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	This			for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of Giraffe; bad property	tree rules
2	lie down	would	Zebra			by a yellowish brownish stone or clump of grass	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stone=Location
3	come	past	the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush Buck or the Bonte Buck				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	surprise	would	Zebra	Giraffe	Giraffe's jumpsome lives		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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