Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 89

He told you to go into spots.’

Who acts: Baviaan · What happens: tell, go · To what, where: you, spots · 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 (Baviaan), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 spots	case
7	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Baviaan		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Baviaan not said here			spots			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spot=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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