Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 10

One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree.

Who acts: Painted Jaguar, Prickly Hedgehog · What happens: find, sit, fall · To what, where: Prickly Hedgehog, trunk

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Painted Jaguar, Prickly Hedgehog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:325): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl:unmarked
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 banks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 banks	det
6	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 night	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Amazon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Amazon	det
9	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Amazon	amod
10	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 banks	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
12	Painted	Painted	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Jaguar	compound
13	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Stickly	Stickly	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Prickly	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Stickly	punct
17	Prickly	Prickly	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Hedgehog	compound
18	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Tortoise	cc
20	Slow	Slow	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Solid	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Slow	punct
22	Solid	Solid	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tortoise	compound
23	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Hedgehog	conj
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 found	xcomp
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 trunk	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trunk	det
27	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 tree	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
30	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 tree	amod
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trunk	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	past	Painted Jaguar	Prickly Hedgehog and Solid Tortoise		night	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Attribute clause=Theme
2	sit	gerund	Prickly Hedgehog and Solid Tortoise not said here		the trunk of a fallen tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under trunk=Location
3	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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