Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 40

The Leopard and the Ethiopian hunted all day; and though they could smell them and hear them, they never saw one of them.

Who acts: Leopard, Giraffe · What happens: hunt, smell, hear, not see · To what, where: words, Giraffe, one

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 (Leopard, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Leopard	det
2	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hunted	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Ethiopian	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ethiopian	det
5	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Leopard	conj
6	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunted	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 smell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 smell	cc
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 smell	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smell	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 smell	aux
14	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hunted	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smell	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hear	cc
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 smell	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 saw	advmod
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hunted	parataxis
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 saw	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hunt	past	the Leopard and the Ethiopian		day	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	smell	could	Giraffe	words = word		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	hear	infinitive	Giraffe not said here	Giraffe		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	not see	past	Giraffe	one of words		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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