Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 56
Don’t you know that if you were on the High Veldt I could see you ten miles off?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not do, know, be, see · To what, where: High Veldt, you · 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 (you, I), 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 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | advcl |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 Veldt | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Veldt | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Veldt | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Veldt | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Veldt | det |
| 11 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Veldt | amod |
| 12 | Veldt | Veldt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 see | advcl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 off | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | you | the High Veldt | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | could | I | you | off property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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