Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 79
‘Well, calling names won’t catch dinner, said the Ethiopian.
Who acts: calling, Ethiopian · What happens: call, not catch, say · To what, where: names, dinner · 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 (calling, Ethiopian), 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 | _ | 8 catch | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 catch | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 catch | csubj |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 calling | obj |
| 6 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 catch | advmod |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 catch | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ethiopian | det |
| 13 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | names | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not catch | future | calling | dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Ethiopian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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