Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 98
They find their spots and stripes give them per-feet satisfaction.’
Who acts: stripes · What happens: find, give · To what, where: spots
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 (stripes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spots | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 6 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | nsubj |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | per | per | ADP | _ | 12 satisfaction | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 per | punct |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 satisfaction | compound |
| 12 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | stripes = stripe | stripes's spots | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | present | stripes | spots = spot | per feet satisfaction | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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