Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 80
‘The long and the little of it is that we don’t match our backgrounds.
Who acts: we · What happens: not be
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 (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 | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 long | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 little | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 long | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 little | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 match | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 match | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 match | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 match | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 match | advmod |
| 14 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 long | conj |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 backgrounds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | backgrounds | background | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 match | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · do-support | we | match property | 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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