--- title: The Leopard did not want stripes ("I wouldn't look like Zebra--not f… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Leopard did not want stripes ("I wouldn't look like Zebra--not for ever so") nor spots too "vulgar-big" ("I wouldn't look like Giraffe"); "not for ever so" = not for anything. Who acts: Leopard, 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, 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:16 # text = The Leopard did not want stripes ("I wouldn't look like Zebra--not for ever so") nor spots too "vulgar-big" ("I wouldn't look like Giraffe"); "not for ever so" = not for anything. # 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 22 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 23 cc _ _ 23 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 26 vulgar vulgar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 45 advmod _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 = = SYM SYM _ 50 punct _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 parataxis _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | the Leopard | stripes | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stripe=Theme | | 2 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | would | the hunter *= hunter* | | | | | like Zebra | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | would | the hunter *= hunter* | | | | | like Giraffe | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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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