--- title: "Bit by bit--the Giraffe began it, because his legs were the longest… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: "Bit by bit--the Giraffe began it, because his legs were the longest--they went away from the High Veldt" to a forest full of "stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows". Who acts: Giraffe, legs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giraffe, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:10 # text = "Bit by bit--the Giraffe began it, because his legs were the longest--they went away from the High Veldt" to a forest full of "stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Bit bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Giraffe giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 advcl _ _ 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Veldt veldt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 29 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 32 stripy stripy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 speckly speckly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 patchy patchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 blatchy blatchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | by bit | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by bit=Location | | 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the Giraffe | bit | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Leopard's legs | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go away** *in a quote* | past | Giraffe | | | the High Veldt | | to a forest; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from veldt=Initial\_Location to forest=Destination | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:10`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/9/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/)