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title: The hunter "put his five fingers close together" and pressed them al… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hunter "put his five fingers close together" and pressed them all over the Leopard, and "wherever the five fingers touched they left five little black marks, all close together". Who acts: hunter, five fingers, Leopard. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leop
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 17

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The hunter "put his five fingers close together" and pressed them all over the Leopard, and "wherever the five fingers touched they left five little black marks, all close together".

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**Who acts:** hunter, five fingers, Leopard · **What happens:** put, press, touch, leave · **To what, where:** five fingers, fingers, five little black marks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, five fingers, Leopard), 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:17
# text = The hunter "put his five fingers close together" and pressed them all over the Leopard, and "wherever the five fingers touched they left five little black marks, all close together".
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
21	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:ccomp
28	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
34	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
35	together	together	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *in a quote* | past | the hunter | hunter's five fingers |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 2 | **press** | past | the hunter *not said here* | fingers *= finger* |  |  |  | over the Leopard | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** *in a quote* | past | the five fingers |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | Leopard | five little black marks |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |

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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.

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**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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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.

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