Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 45

I am going to sit on your head till morning, because there is something about you that I don’t understand.’

Who acts: I, something · What happens: go, sit, be, not understand · To what, where: head

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 (I, something), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
9	till	till	ADP	_	10 morning	case
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 is	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	advcl
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 is	nsubj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 something	nmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 understand	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 understand	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 understand	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 understand	advmod
22	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit	to-infinitive	I not said here	your head	morning	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
3	be	present	something	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not understand	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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