--- title: The Leopard "matched the 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colo… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Leopard "matched the 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair", and would "surprise them out of their jumpsome lives". Who acts: Leopard. 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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 (Leopard), 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:8 # text = The Leopard "matched the 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair", and would "surprise them out of their jumpsome lives". # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 matched match VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 7 sclusively sclusively ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 yellowish yellowish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 greyish greyish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 brownish brownish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Veldt veldt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 surprise surprise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 jumpsome jumpsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **match** *in a quote* | past | the Leopard | the yellowish brownish colour of the High Veldt | | | | to one hair | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent colour=Patient to hair=Co-Patient | | 2 | **surprise** *in a quote* | would | the Leopard *not said here* | Giraffe | | Giraffe's jumpsome lives | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | 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. 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