Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 8

After a long time--things lived for ever so long in those days--they learned to avoid anything that looked like a Leopard or an Ethiopian; and bit by bit--the Giraffe began it, because his legs were the longest--they went away from the High Veldt.

Who acts: things, Giraffe, legs · What happens: live, learn, avoid, look, begin, be · To what, where: anything, bit, High Veldt

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 (things, Giraffe, 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 lived	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 lived	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 days	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 days	det
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 learned	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 learned	nsubj
17	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 avoid	mark
19	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 learned	xcomp
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 avoid	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 anything	acl:relcl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 Leopard	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Leopard	det
25	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 Ethiopian	cc
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Ethiopian	det
28	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Leopard	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 bit	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bit	cc
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	obl:unmarked
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 bit	case
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bit	nmod
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Giraffe	det
36	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 began	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 longest	punct
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 longest	mark
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 legs	nmod:poss
42	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 longest	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 longest	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 longest	det
45	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 began	advcl
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 went	punct
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 went	nsubj
48	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
49	away	away	ADV	_	48 went	advmod
50	from	from	ADP	_	53 Veldt	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Veldt	det
52	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Veldt	amod
53	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 went	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	things			day; time	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	past	things = thing					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	avoid	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here	anything				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Location
4	look	past					like a Leopard or a Ethiopian	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	begin	past	the Giraffe	bit by bit				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	is	past	Zebra's legs				long property	tree rules
7	go away	past	Giraffe		the High Veldt		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from veldt=Initial_Location

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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