Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 49

‘Sit on its head till the morning--same as me.

Who acts: you · What happens: sit · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
6	till	till	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Sit	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 same	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			scramble's head	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location

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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