--- title: The Leopard thought Baviaan meant places: "I went into other spots a… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Leopard thought Baviaan meant places: "I went into other spots as fast as I could ... and a lot of good it has done me", but the hunter explains, "He meant spots on your skin." Who acts: Leopard, Baviaan, lot, hunter. 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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, Baviaan, lot, hunter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:15 # text = The Leopard thought Baviaan meant places: "I went into other spots as fast as I could ... and a lot of good it has done me", but the hunter explains, "He meant spots on your skin." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 078-justso-leopard-spots-2.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Baviaan Baviaan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 19 ... ... PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:iobj 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 37 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:parataxis 39 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Leopard | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | past | Baviaan | places | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | the Leopard *= leopard* | | | other spots | | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into spot=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | lot | a lot of good | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the hunter | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | hunter | spots | | your skin | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic | 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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