Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 44
So he said, ‘Be quiet, O you person without any form.
Who acts: Zebra, you · What happens: say, be, person · 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 (Zebra, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quiet | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 quiet | punct |
| 6 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quiet | cop |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 person | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 person | discourse |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 person | nsubj |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quiet | obl |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 form | det |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 person | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Zebra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | person | you | without any form | 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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