Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 63
‘Let us up,’ said the Zebra, ‘and we will show you.
Who acts: Zebra, we · What happens: let up, say, show · To what, where: us, 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 (Zebra, we), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Let | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Zebra | det |
| 9 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 show | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 show | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 show | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let up | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Zebra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show | future | we | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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