Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 50

They haven’t any form--any of ‘em.’

Who acts: legs · What happens: not have · To what, where: form

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 (legs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 have	advmod
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 form	det
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 any	punct
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 form	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 em	case
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 em	punct
10	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 any	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	legs = leg	any form					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient

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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