Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 58
‘Yes,’ said the Zebra, ‘but this isn’t the High Veldt.
Who acts: Zebra, this · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: High Veldt · 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, this), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Zebra | det |
| 7 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Veldt | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 Veldt | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 Veldt | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Veldt | cop |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 Veldt | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Veldt | det |
| 15 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Veldt | amod |
| 16 | Veldt | Veldt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Zebra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | this | the High Veldt | 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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