Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 42
This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal.’
Who acts: daylight hunting · What happens: be · To what, where: perfect scandal
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 (daylight hunting), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hunting | det |
| 2 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunting | compound |
| 3 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scandal | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scandal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 scandal | det |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 scandal | amod |
| 7 | scandal | scandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 scandal | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 scandal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this daylight hunting | a perfect scandal | tree rules |
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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