Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 81

I’m going to take Baviaan’s advice.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, go, take · To what, where: advice

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ’m	nsubj
2	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ’m	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 advice	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Baviaan	case
8	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	be	present	I		tree rules
2	go	gerund	I not said here		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	Baviaan's advice	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme

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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