Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 93
‘Oh,’ said the Ethiopian, ‘Baviaan didn’t mean spots in South Africa.
Who acts: Ethiopian, Baviaan · What happens: say, not mean · To what, where: 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 (Ethiopian, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ethiopian | det |
| 7 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 10 | Baviaan | Baviaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mean | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 mean | advmod |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mean | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Africa | case |
| 16 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Africa | compound |
| 17 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 spots | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Ethiopian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not mean | past · do-support | Baviaan | spots | in South Africa | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot spot=Theme in africa=Attribute |
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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